After our school visit we went to the Hector Pieterson museum, which I found really interesting. The displays showed the severity of the shooting and seeing footages and photos really effected me. There was one display that showed Hector Pieterson’s sisters account of what happened and this moved me a lot because she was talking about how a grown adult could ever harm a young child in this way. Also in another of her displays she was talking about how no one cared about him when he was alive but once he died everyone seemed to care a lot more. This sparked a large amount of publicity worldwide and highlighted the struggles in Soweto. This needed to happen a long time ago so Apartheid could have stopped sooner. This made a few people realise the harsh reality of society at that time. Even in videos shown at the museum, it showed the cruel reality of what happened. This made me feel emotional. As well as this we got to see the memorial tiles. It shocked me how many tiles were there that was dedicated to unknown people. This just portrayed the seriousness of what happened. In summary, the Hector Pieterson museum widened my knowledge of the massacre.
Holly Standish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Pieterson
Holly Standish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Pieterson