Hector Pieterson was 12 years old when he was shot dead in Soweto on 16 June 1976. His picture became the image of a generation that stood up against apartheid. Nearly 50 years later, Rob Rose and Zukile Majova ask a harder question on this week’s Sharp Sharp: what did South Africa actually do with that sacrifice? Zuks says young people today are still being failed. Not by apartheid this time, but by broken schools, unemployment, weak leadership…
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