Hector Pieterson

Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.

[1] A news photograph by Sam Nzima of the mortally wounded Pieterson being carried by another Soweto resident while his sister ran next to them was published around the world.

[2] Students gathered to peacefully demonstrate, but the crowd soon became intimidated when the police arrived, and started to throw stones.

He was picked up by Mbuyisa Makhubo who, together with Pieterson's sister Antoinette (then 17 years old), ran towards Sam Nzima's car.

[7] On 9 August 2002 U.S. lawyer Ed Fagan led a $50bn[clarification needed] class action suit by apartheid-era victims against international firms and banks who profited from dealings with the Apartheid regime.

Fagan had filed a string of lawsuits over human-rights issues brought in order to force companies to settle.