It is the 16th of June, 1976 in the picture above. Antoinette runs in desperation by the side of her little brother Hector, who lies in the arms of Mbuyiswas.

Hector Pieterson is 12 and the place is Soweto, South Africa. When they reach the clinic, Hector is already dead.
   Many black children were imprisoned, tortured and killed because they protested against apartheid - against being treated badly only because they were black. The day Hector was shot 10,000 pupils had gathered to demonstrate. Hector and the other young people has just come together when the police threw teargas against the demonstrators. The children threw stones back at them. Then the police shot directly into the group of children and Hector was the first who died that day.
   Finally, freedom came for South Africa´s blacks. In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released after more than 27 years in prison. In 1994 blacks were allowed to vote for the first time and Mandela was elected president.