Question

What happened to Hector and his classmates? Why did it happen?

Answer 1

Hint: Hector Pieterson was a South African schoolboy. He was shot and killed. That has happened during the Soweto uprising when the police opened fire on students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans.

Complete answer:
Hector and his classmates are included in the group of non-whites, in one black township named Soweto, he and his friends are forced to learn and write the language of whites and they are not ready to do so. The language of whites is called Afrikaans. But he and his friends are not ready to learn and write that language and they wanted to learn their language. The language of them is called Zulu. Because of this reason they joined the protest against learning the Afrikaans language in school. Hector and his classmates protested against learning the African language in school because whites are not allowed to study their language. This was the language that white spoke. They are forced to learn and write this language, but they wanted to learn their own language Zulu because that was their local language. That was one of the important things they wanted and they were ready to start to protest against them. The South African police beat up the protestors brutally and shot at the crowd without any condition. The shot against the crowd leads to the killing of many people who participated in that protest. The protest is led by non-whites. The sad thing is that one of their bullets killed Hector. There are certain ways the non-whites were discriminated they are: the government practiced apartheid laws, the people included in different races were not allowed to mingle with each other and at the time with common people. Non-whites have no permission to vote, there are separate trains and buses for non-whites. In that period the white people were discriminated against the non-whites and they discriminated against others.

Note: The anniversary of his death is selected as Youth Day when South Africans respect young people and bring attention to their needs. A news photograph by Sam Nzima of the extremely injured. Hector was carried by another Soweto resident and at the same time while his sister ran next to them was published around the world.