Today a nice man called Big Ben took my family and I to see a place called Soweto. The place Soweto is short for South West Township. Big Ben was born in Soweto, so he knew a lot about it. Also today we went to a museum called Hector Pieterson. We went there to learn about how the black and white people became enemies. Because once the white people thought that they were better than the black people, so they came all the way to Soweto to get the black people to learn Africaans and not allowed to speak their own language. All the students and teachers and principals did not want to only speak Africaans, so they said NO and the white people got angry, so they let out their angry dogs and the black people killed and stabbed the dogs until they were dead and the white people got even more angry so they started loading and shooting their guns to kill the black people. The first person to die was 13 and his name was Hector Pieterson and I think that that gave the museum its name.
On my first day I got here the taxi driver told me how to say goodbye in South African "sha sha boti" and also thank you in Zulu is "ngiyabonga" and if you want to say thank you for a lot of people, like lots of people saying thank you, it will be "cyabonga".
- By Meg Shepherd
PS the picture down there of me and my family and Ben, next to us is the picture of Hector Pieterson when he died.
On my first day I got here the taxi driver told me how to say goodbye in South African "sha sha boti" and also thank you in Zulu is "ngiyabonga" and if you want to say thank you for a lot of people, like lots of people saying thank you, it will be "cyabonga".
- By Meg Shepherd
PS the picture down there of me and my family and Ben, next to us is the picture of Hector Pieterson when he died.
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