South African Police: Mbuyisa Makhubu

Mbuyisa Makhubu: Mbuyisa Makhubu was 18 when he was photographed carrying dying schoolboy Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old shot by South African police on June 16, 1976, during the Soweto uprising. The image, which captured the apartheid governments brutality against the African majority population, became a symbol of resistance, and June 16 has since been marked as National Youth Day, according to The Star. Now, 37 years after Makhubus disappearance, the mystery may have been solved by a Canada Border Services Agency investigator, a source familiar with the probe told and A man who has been languishing in immigration detention in Canada for almost a decade is believed to be a South African anti-apartheid icon whose disappearance has remained a mystery. Makhubu was forced into hiding shortly after the picture was published. His family last heard from him in 1978 in a letter from Nigeria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.