• We compare the different houses from the matchbox houses to the elephant houses as well as the informal settlements.

• We make a short stop at the old mine compounds.

• We visit the Regina Mundi Catholic church. The church was mainly used for political meetings and gatherings during the apartheid era. Funeral services of many political victims were held here, hence its importance in the community.

• We take a tour of the Baragwanath taxi ranks and markets.

• We experience urban life in a black township. Some of the things you may see include: colourful markets, ladies carrying goods on their head, the local barber shop, “spaza” , donkey carts carrying coal, local home made beer brewing, traditional restaurants, traditional medicine and traditional healers, taxi commuters using sign language to communicate with the taxi drivers.

• You will get a chance to meet the people of Soweto.

• We  will stop at Motswaledi or Kliptown informal settlements.

• We make a stop on Vilakazi Street, which boasts the original residences of Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

• We visit the Hector Pietersen Museum to see the struggle of young black South Africans in the struggle, in particular the 1976 uprising.

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