"The pain of losing him was there and it faded with time but already you can see that a lot has been done in such a short space of time. Those who passed away there lives (inluding my son's) were not lost in vain. Eliot Ndlovu, Hastings Father" - the words inscribed on one of the monuments commemorating the death of Hector Pieterson, the young schoolboy who was the first to die in the 1976 student uprisings that began in Soweto and spread across the country.