Historic sites

Apartheid Museum and Soweto, Johannesburg

South Africa Gauteng Johannesburg

Apartheid Museum and Soweto, Johannesburg
Photo: Joe Ross from Lansing, Michigan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A powerful museum telling the story of apartheid and the struggle against it. In Soweto, visit Nelson Mandela's house on Vilakazi Street and the Hector Pieterson Memorial.


Constitution Hill, a former prison, is now the Constitutional Court. Join a guided tour of Soweto.

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