Solomon Mahlangu Freedom SquareThe substantial and imposing bronze statue of Solomon Mahlangu is mounted on a large pedestal, in the centre of a circular paved area. It is sited at the most prominent and visible corner of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom Square.…Solomon Mahlangu Statue. Date: 2005 Type: Statue Status: Extant Street: Solomon Mahlangu Freedom Square
The government would not give way, however, and on 6 April 1979, aged 23, Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was executed, his spirit unbroken by the long time he had spent in the shadow of the gallows. His last words were: “My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom.
In 1977, whilst work was ensuing in Mazimbu, the apartheid regime captured the 21 year old Solomon Mahlangu which resulted in an international for his clemency throughout his 2 year trial for a crime he had not committed.
The 56-year-old was granted bail of R500 and is expected to reappear in court on Monday.
Boesak, a 44-year-old father of four, denied that anything “immoral” had taken place between him and Elna Botha, a 30-year-old executive with the state-run television network. Botha, who is married to a TV news reader, is the niece of a former government Cabinet minister who once took away Boesak’s passport.
Allan Aubrey Boesak (born 23 February 1946) is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was subsequently granted an official pardon and reinstated as a cleric in late 2004.
Avalon Cemetery, Soweto, South AfricaHector Pieterson / Place of burial Avalon Cemetery is one of the largest graveyards in South Africa. It was opened in 1972, during the height of apartheid, as a graveyard exclusively for black people.
There were many pictures of a young schoolboy of around fifteen years of age. When she asked her mother who the boy was, she was told that he was called, Hector Pieterson. He had been shot by the police. Maya was shocked.
Sam Nzima (8 August 1934 in Lillydale, Bushbuckridge Local Municipality – 12 May 2018 in Nelspruit) was the South African photographer who took what became the well known image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprising, but struggled for years to get the copyright.
LillydaleNowadays he runs a school of photography in Bushbuck Ridge after being donated a black and white enlarger by The Sowetan. He also serves on the Bushbuck Ridge municipal council and the council of Bohlabela District. Sam Nzima is still lives in Lillydale, Bushbuck Ridge.
