Hector Pieterson / Andries Tatane - can we get a public holiday for Andries too?

jxharding said:
Andries Tatane - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_Tatane
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He was in a opposition party to the ANC so no national holiday for him.

It has also emerged that this was not an isolated incident[8][9] and that the ICD has investigated 1 769 separate incidents of people dying in police custody or as a result of police action in 2010.[10] National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele's statement in late August 2009 that police officers should be able to "shoot to kill"[11] without worrying about the consequences will undoubtedly be brought to the forefront again.

The ANC's National Spokesperson, Jackson Mthembu, condemned the brutality, but also chastised the SABC for broadcasting the footage during the prime time news, citing the fact that it might have upset sensitive viewers,[10] calling on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to investigate the SABC's editorial decision. Mthembu has been one of the most vocal supporters of planned legislation to introduce a Media Appeals Tribunal to govern the South African media;[12] legislation which is currently held in abeyance.
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See this is why they want to silence the media, so you don't get to see the schit going down under their rule.
 
It isn't Hector Pieterson Day. It's Youth Day.

The Pieterson family was originally the Pitso family but decided to adopt the Pieterson name to try to pass as Coloured, a different ethnic group under the Apartheid system of racial classification, because Coloured people enjoyed somewhat better privileges under apartheid than blacks did.
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Guess it didn't work cause they were still in Soweto.
 
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