“He pulled out his gun and shot directly into the crowd. He didn’t shoot on top, or what. Into the crowd.”
Read Sam Nzima’s full account of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, as told to Maggie Messitt, in the print edition of a.magazine’s first issue.
Photographer Sam Nzima is most famous for his iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson’s lifeless body during the 1976 Soweto Uprising. He was a staff and freelance photographer for the World newspaper during the sixties and seventies, fleeing Johannesburg in fear of police retaliation for his work.
Returning to his birthplace in Lilydale, Bushbuckridge, Nzima has become a successful small business owner and is actively involved in numerous community-building projects.
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