A taxi driver is pulled out of his car and attacked by a police dog during demonstrations in the business district of Johannesburg, February 1, 1993. Credit: Dylan Martinez
Peter Mokaba, first president of the South African Youth Congress, addresses a protest meeting at Wits University, 1987. Today marks 24 years since his passing. Photo Credit: Paul Weingberg
Native South Africans, both educated and uneducated, defeated and overthrew the apartheid regime.
They did not flee in their millions to neighboring countries; they stayed and fought, sacrificing their lives for freedom.
With that same spirit, we can continue to fight systemic racism, economic inequality, landlessness, the influx of legal and illegal immigrants, and other critical issues affecting our nation.
Poppy Buthelezi, a former student who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since she was injured during the student uprisings of 1976, visits the Hector Pieterson Memorial. Credit: Alf Kumalo/Through My Lens