Ramaphosa and ANC hail Nzima
President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC on Sunday hailed the achievements of veteran photographer Sam Nzima, who died over the weekend.
"Mr Sam Nzima was one of a kind. His camera captured the full brutality of apartheid oppression on the nation's psyche and history - from the Defiance Campaign through to forced removals and the Soweto student uprisings," Ramaphosa said in a statement issued by the Presidency.
"We will especially remember his iconic photograph of a dying young Hector Pieterson which became a symbol of resistance against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in the black schools."
Nzima, 83, died in a Nelspruit hospital on Saturday evening.
The ANC said that the photograph of Pieterson "became a historical landmark feature that forever defined how the June 16, 1976 narrative was told".