Four decades on, Soweto wounds still raw Dan Montsitsi was one of the leaders of the students movement that led to the uprising in the Soweto township on June 16, 1976. Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old student, was killed by the apartheid police, while he was demonstrating against the government's decision to make Afrikaans compulsory as the teaching language in schools. On Saturday, a ceremony will take place in Soweto to promote reconciliation. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES