Hector Pieterson - One Drop

Hector Pieterson your death forever left a bloodstain

So we declare this a holiday

Soweto youth will rally in the streets so all will hear

With their fists high in the air

June 1976 though a normal day of tension

Grew into something tragic

South Africa’s uprising in the township of Soweto

Home of 2 Nobel Prize winners Tutu and Mandela

«Cause a language is taught, Afrikaans in school

A system of apartheid to control and rule

They knew a foreign language would make test scores hurt

To keep the black man from doing more than service work

I said

Hector Pieterson your death forever left a bloodstain

So we declare this a holiday

Soweto youth will rally in the streets so all will hear

With their fists high in the air

The students got together to protest in peace

At the corner of Moema where it meets Vilakazi

Armed with a voice singing the Sotho anthem

Against guns and ammunition and the violence you’d imagine

Police shot tear gas

Then them bullets would pass

Killing so many people

More than 500 would pass away

And you were only at the age of 13

The resistance is your memory