Soweto & Apartheid Tour
This tour includes Soweto, Sophiatown and the Apartheid Mueum. After a brief introductory talk drive to Sophiatown. Tour this area briefly and learn about it’s significance to Apartheid and the events of February 1955. Visit the memorial to Father Trevor Huddleston and see the house of Dr Xuma, Leader of the ANC in 1942. Whilst Sophiatown bears little resemblance to how it was in those days – it should be visited as part of a journey to Soweto as Soweto really grew out of Sophiatown. Then on to Soweto, drive past Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, one of the largest in the world, and the largest taxi-rank in the world. Visit Walter Sisulu Square where the Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955, Vilakazi street (home to two Nobel Peace Prize Winners), and visit Hector Pietersen Museum, if time permits. Travel past the Regina Mundi Church, scene of many political gatherings after 1978. Continue to the Apartheid Museum. The background to Apartheid is given as well as examples of discrimination which had existed here since the 17th Century. The early years of South Africa, the Zulu Wars, the South African War, the migrant Labour System, the Gold Mines, Miners strikes, Broederbond, Sophiatown, Sharpville, Liliesleaf, Freedom Charter, Treason Trial, Afrikaner Nationalism, life under Apartheid, Resistance, Violence from 1978- 1994, release of Nelson Mandela, CODESA, and the first democratic elections in 1994 all explained. After visiting this Museum visitors are fully aware of the effects of Apartheid on the country today.
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