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Zolile Hector Pieterson (18 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising and massacre in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured populations in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects. The pupils wanted to learn in their native languages, Xhosa and Zulu.