Soweto Historical Highlights Guided Tour

Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships. Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg and one of the suburbs of Johannesburg.
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Duration: 4 hours

FNB Stadium

Gate B, Soccer City Avenue,, , Johannesburg, 2147

First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium also known as Soccer City and The Calabash, is an association football (soccer) and Rugby union stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg. The venue is managed by Stadium Management South Africa (SMSA) and is a home of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. in the South African Premier Soccer League as well as key fixtures for the South African national football team.It is located next to the South African Football Association headquarters (SAFA House) where both the FIFA offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup were housed. Designed as the main association football stadium for the World Cup, the FNB Stadium became the largest stadium in Africa with a capacity of 94,736. However, its maximum capacity during the 2010 FIFA.
The stadium is also known by its nickname "The Calabash" due to its resemblance to the African potor gourd.

30 minutes

Orlando Towers

, , Soweto

Orlando Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Soweto, South Africa. The power station was commissioned at the end of the Second World War and served Johannesburg for over 50 years.

30 minutes

Mandela House

8115 Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, 1804

Vilakazi Street along which the poet lived in the formerly segregated township of Soweto, is named after Benedict Vilakazi. Vilakazi Street is now very famous as the street where both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu also once lived.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Hector Pieterson Museum and Memorial

8287 Khumalo St, , Soweto

Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subject whereas they wanted to learn in their native languages, Xhosa and Zulu.A news photograph by Sam Nzima of the mortally wounded Pieterson being carried by another Soweto resident while his sister ran next to them was published around the world. The anniversary of his death is designated Youth Day in South Africa.

45 minutes

Walter Sisulu Square

Klipspruit Valley Road, Corner Union Road, Soweto

Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, is located in the heart of Kliptown in Soweto, South Africa.
This location was the site where, on 26 June 1955, the Congress of the People, met to draw up the Freedom Charter, an alternative vision to the repressive policies of the apartheid state. The document emphasised a non-racial society, liberty and individual rights. The Freedom Charter remains the cornerstone of African National Congress policy to this day and is seen by many as the foundation of South Africa's 1996 constitution.

1 hour