Georgetown : Prime Minister Samuel Hinds represented President Donald Ramotar at the African Diaspora Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, held over the past two days under the theme: “Towards the Realisation of a United and Integrated Africa and its Diaspora”.
The event hosted by the African Union attracted African leaders and African diaspora including from the Caribbean, the Americas and elsewhere.
While there, the Prime Minister visited the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto and met Antoinette Sithole, the sister of Pieterson.
In 1976, then 12-year-old Pieterson was shot by police during the Soweto Students’ Uprising. He was picked up by Mbuyisa Makhubo, who, together with Hector's sister, Antoinette Sithole, ran towards a press car, and was taken to a nearby clinic, where he was pronounced dead.
What has now become famous is the photograph taken of the child moments after being shot. He is shown being carried by someone and his sister Antoinette running alongside.
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