Through The Cracks - The untold story of Mbuyisa Makhubu

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2016-06-10

  Episode 4: Lingering Mystery

Is it him or isn’t it him? Some members of the Makhubu family and some politicians still maintain Victor Vinnetou is indeed Mbuyisa Makhubu. Others rubbish the suggestion. Episode Four investigates by weighing up the facts and through the interpretatio...
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2016-06-10

  Episode 3: Mbuyisa Discovered?

After nearly forty years of mystery and intrigue about what may have happened to Mbuyisa Makhubu, new hope is rekindled in 2013. A man is discovered languishing in a Canadian prison and authorities suspect it may be the iconic June 16 hero. Episode Thr...
  Primedia Broadcasting author
2016-06-10

  Episode 2: Walking to Jamaica

As a result of Sam Nzima’s photograph, Mbuyisa Makhubu became the most wanted man in Soweto. He fled into exile to Botswana and then on to Nigeria where he disappeared. Episode Two tracks Makhubu’s journey between 1976 and 1978 through the voices of th...
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2016-06-08

  Episode 1: The Hell Was Loose

During the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976, photographer Sam Nzima captured the iconic image of 18-year-old Mbuyisa Makhubu carrying a dying boy, Hector Pieterson. While the photograph has endured, little is known about Makhubu and what became of him. ...
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