“I Saw a Nightmare…”
Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick

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AcknowledgmentsReaders' Guide
IntroductionThe NarrativeOfficial StoriesThe ParticipantsAfrikaansMemory and ViolenceFinal ThoughtsArchive
AbbreviationsGlossary

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Wounded man, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Dead young man gunshot wound, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Dead young man, view from further away, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Dead young man, curled up, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Dead woman on street surrounded by police, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Dead woman with police officer, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Dead woman with police officer, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Man being led by police, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Man being held by police man, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Man dead amongst rubble, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Man dead in courtyard with police and African onlookers, Alexandra. June 1976. Source: SAB K345
Police statement (9 July 1976) by Thomas Phillipus Kriegler. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Statement by Frank Mamburu. Source: SAB K345, vols. 85-86
Autopsy documents: Lily Mithi. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Autopsy documents: Hector Pieterson. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Autopsy documents: Hermina Leroke. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Autopsy documents: Amos Mokoena. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Confidential police report (31 August 1976) about autopsies/deaths in Alexandra township, attention Maj. T. Baker, page 1. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Confidential police report (31 August 1976) about autopsies/deaths in Alexandra township, attention Maj. T. Baker. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Affidavit: Mokongo Daniel Thobejane (2 August 1976). Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Statement (16 August 1976) by Willem de Klerk with explanation of movement of bodies. Source: SAB K345, vol. 99
Death certificate: Melville Leonard Edelstein. Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 409
Statement (25 March 1977) by Rudolph Everton Hobkirk about the death of M. L. Edelstein. Source: Civil Case WLD 6857 (1977), Vol. 409
Hector Pieterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Nkita Makhubu, his sister, Antoinette Musi, running alongside.
Photographer Sam Nzima in front of his photograph of Hector Pieterson, Mbuyisa Nkita Makhubu, and Antoinette Musi at the Hector Pieterson Museum.