Soweto and Johannesburg | Guided Tours South Africa

NK03 SOWETO and Johannesburg (4 hours / 5 hours with lunch)

1 Passenger	R 1000 pp
2-4 Passengers	R 500 pp
5+ Passengers	R 460 pp

Includes entry fees at Hector Pieterson MuseumAdd R250 P/P if you will have lunch in Soweto

This tour is a combination of the SOWETO and Johannesburg tours but with very little or no time to go into museums on the half day tour.

* Constitution Hill – houses the new Constitution Court and the old Fort Prison Complex (better known by locals as Number 4). Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and many other political prisoners spent time in this jail. The holding cells for women political prisoners still look like the time when Winnie Mandela and others were occupants of the cells. The videos of those prisoners narrating their time in this jail will make you really understand the horrors of apartheid.

* Museum Africa - which houses many fascinating geological specimens, paintings and photographs relating to South Africa’s music, mining, art, politics, development and photography.

* Top of Africa at the viewing gallery at the top of the tallest building in Africa, The Carlton Centre, you will have a panoramic view of the whole of Johannesburg.

* Vilakazi Street – the only street in the whole world where two NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winners lived at the same time – Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba), hero of The Struggle and the Republic of South Africa’s first democratically elected president, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tuto, tireless campaigner for civil rights. This is the same street where on June 16, 1976 the first victim of the SOWETO uprisings, Hector Pieterson, was gunned down by the police when students were protesting about among others the use of the Afrikaans language as a medium of instructions in schools.

* Nelson Mandela Museum – the house that Nelson Mandela lived before he was arrested in 1962.

* Hector Pieterson Memorial & Museum - a museum about the SOWETO Uprisings when over 600 South African black students were killed by the police for protesting against among others the use of the Afrikaans language as the medium of instructions at schools.

* Spaza shops – small shops operating from people’ homes.

* Hostels – where families live in overcrowded rooms in hostels built by the apartheid for housing immigrant workers who came to Johannesburg from faraway places,

* Regina Mundi Church - Soweto's largest Catholic Church. Not only has the vast church always been a spiritual haven for thousands of Sowetans, it has also played a pivotal role in the township's history of resistance against apartheid. As such it is a well-circled destination on the tourist map: every day the church opens its doors to streams of visitors keen to witness the scars it still bears from the Soweto uprisings, when police stormed through its doors, firing live ammunition at fleeing students

* SOWETO’s own Beverly Hills where you will see Winnie Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu’ homes.

NK03 SOWETO and Johannesburg (4 hours / 5 hours with lunch)

Approx times 8am to 1pm