Tribute to Tsietsi Mashinini

TRIBUTE TO TSIETSI MASHININI At 8am on June 16 1976 Tsietsi Mashinini interrupted the school assembly to lead the first group of students on the march that started the Soweto uprising. A reward was posted for his capture and one afternoon security police checked every student leaving the grounds. Mashinini, who was a prefect at, Morris Isaacson escaped detection by dressing up as a girl. After the march he never slept at home again and fled the country two months later. The artwork by Johannes Phokela was commissioned by the Sunday Times in 2006