South Africa Photographer Honored For Soweto Photo


by Donna Bryson

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - A South African photographer is being honored for helping to expose apartheid's brutality to the world.

On Wednesday, celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa because it is the anniversary of the country's first all-race elections, President Jacob Zuma will bestow national honors on Sam Nzima for a photograph reminiscent of the ``Pieta'' he took showing a dying Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old shot by police during the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising.

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