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1976 student uprising leader still haunted by “rows of bodies in the mortuary”

Seth Mazibuko is part of a team heading the “1976 at 50” campaign to commemorate the day

Veteran student leader Seth Mazibuko in front of Sam Nzima’s iconic photograph of Mbuyisa Makhubu carrying the body of Hector Pieterson during the 1976 uprising at The Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
“I will never forget that day,” says Seth Mazibuko. “We were children on a peaceful march. When the police opened fire, everything changed.”
Mazibuko was a student leader involved in the 1976 Soweto student movement which organised mass protests against the apartheid government’s decision to impose Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools.
As South Africa commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 16 June Soweto student uprising, Mazibuko is calling on young people to “finish what was started”.
He is now part of…

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