Hastings Ndlovu, (1961 – June 16, 1976) was a black Sowetan schoolboy who died in the Soweto uprising against the apartheid system.
Little is known about him, but on June 16, 1976, when the police opened fire on Sowetan students protesting against being forced to learn Afrikaans in school, he took the first bullet. Hastings Ndlovu's shooting and later death was not publicized as was Hector Pieterson's, because there was no photographer present to shoot a picture of the boy.
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—Max Hastings (b. 1945)