Sam Nzima was at the Soweto Uprising, and took the iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, a 13-year-old student who was killed by the police. After he was shot, fellow student Mbuyisa Makhubo carried him to Sam’s car, with Hector’s sister Antoinette running alongside. They raced to a clinic, but Hector was sadly pronounced dead on arrival.
40 years on, I met Sam at the Bhubezi Community Healthcare Centre, a one-stop clinic for basic healthcare, TB, and HIV/AIDS care in South Africa. Virgin Unite helped to found the clinic in 2007, and it now employs more than 50 local people, has had over 280,000 patient visits and has initiated nearly 9,000 patients on Anti-Retroviral Treatment since inception. You can support the Bhubezi clinic by donating to help provide basic health, TB, and HIV/AIDS care to one of the most impoverished areas of rural South Africa.