Johannesburg and Soweto Tours

Johannesburg and Soweto Tours

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Johannesburg and Soweto tours are not just ordinary tours - our visitors get to interact with the people of the township, hear their untold stories, experience their music, share their traditional food and enjoy our customs.

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Stop At: Apartheid Museum, Northern Park Way and Gold Reef Rd, Johannesburg 2001 South Africa

The Apartheid Museum is a museum in Johannesburg, South Africa illustrating apartheid and the 20th century history of South Africa. The museum, part of the Gold Reef City complex, was opened in November 2001.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: 11 Kotze Street Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct, Johannesburg 2001 South Africa

The Constitution Hill precinct is located at 11 Kotze Street in Braamfontein, Johannesburg near the western end of the suburb of Hillbrow. Constitution Hill is the seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: 286 Fox Street, Maboneng Precinct City & Suburban, Johannesburg 2094 South Africa

Maboneng, is a seSotho word meaning “place of light”, a fitting name for a district that has fast become a centre of creative energy for Johannesburg’s urban artists. This magical urban neighbourhood is the centre of creative energy with a mix of restaurants, coffee shops, clothing boutiques, art galleries, retail and studio space. The precinct draws the inner-city public as well as the chic, art-going crowd of the city’s suburbs, bringing life back to this downtown Johannesburg neighbourhood. The area also drives Johannesburg tourism within the local and international tourist markets. Maboneng boasts an abundantly inclusive vibe, which a must see for everyone in Joburg.

Duration: 30 minutes

Pass By: FNB Stadium, Nasrec, Johannesburg South 2147, Johannesburg South Africa

First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City and The Calabash, is a stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Pass By: Orlando Towers, Soweto, Johannesburg South Africa

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.

Stop At: Hector Pieterson Museum, 8287 Khumalo St, Soweto, Johannesburg South Africa

Hector Pieterson was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student - was published around the world.

Hector was one of the first casualties of the 1976 uprising against the sole use of the Afrikaans language in schools. He was 12 at the time of his death. A postmortem revealed that Pieterson was killed by a shot fired directly at him and not by a bullet 'ricocheting off the ground' as police claimed.

Another boy, Hastings Ndlovu, is believed to have been the first child to be shot by police on that fateful day. Approximately 566 schoolchildren were killed during the protests. June 16 has been observed as a public holiday in South Africa called ‘youth day’ since 1994.

Earlier in the 1990’s a memorial to Hector Pieterson was erected in Orlando, Soweto, two blocks from where Hector was shot and fell.Later, in 2002, the Hector Pieterson Museum opened behind the memorial site. Sam Nzima’s photograph of Hector is displayed at the memorial in Soweto.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Soweto Theatre, Cnr. Bolani Link & Bolani Rd, Jabulani, Soweto, Soweto, Johannesburg 1868 South Africa

The Soweto Theatre complex is owned by the City of Joburg.

The theatre’s operating company, Soweto Theatre (SOC) Ltd, is a Municipal Entity of the City of Joburg.The city’s Community Development sector retains political oversight of the operations of Joburg Theatre, Soweto Theatre and The Roodepoort City Theatre.

Duration: 1 hour