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Soweto
Soweto, South Africa
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Take me to Soweto
This is a top pick! ... Nelson Mandela was taken off America's most wanted terrorists lists only last year and that we in the US were actively shunning South Africa. It's amazing how things do change. Upon leaving the Apartheid Museum we began our tour of Soweto, ...
Soweto drive by
This is a top pick! ... to move about without an identity card. He had to live under the rules of curfew. He was not a free man. But has South Africa really changed? I couldn't help wonder if this life of freedom wasn't now also his captor? Were there opportunities for him, ...
Getting in with the locals....
This is a top pick! ... and portaloo. They have absolutely no electricity. It is such a contrast from so many of the houses I've seen throughout south africa - and even in Soweto. But it is heartening that there are some areas where conditions are so much better, so there are ...
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This is a top pick! Hi all! We had to get our photos developed in Cape Town so we've selected a few and added them to this entry. They are taken from our trip from Ethiopia to South Africa. New travelpod entry to follow very soon. K & ...
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Hector Pieterson Museum
Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
This tragic museum, opened in 2002, honors the Sowetan schoolchildren slain in a police massacre in 1976.
Hector Pieterson Memorial
Hector Pieterson Square, Soweto Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
The 1976 photograph of slain thirteen-year old Hector Pieterson, carried by a friend while his grieving sister runs alongside, is a chilling reminder that South African was changed thereafter.
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Soweto Forum (4)
Johannesburg
Posted by off_road_clara
... on the Apartheid museum) and you are close enough to Soweto is you want to see what a modern day township looks like. South Africa is a positive country, and a great place to see wildlife (Hluhluwe-iMfolozi, Pillanesburg, Kruger Parks), and learn about ...
Poorism
Posted by mmbcross
... to Face Tours started guiding the curious through Soweto, then an all-black township at the southwestern edge of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Soweto was annexed to Johannesburg in 2002.) More than 20 years later, Jimmy Ntintili, founder of Face to Face, ...
"Dark" Tourism
Posted by starlagurl
... of New York's Central Park. Step over rats in the shanty towns around Rio de Janeiro. Or meet local South Africans living in a Soweto township near Johannesburg, dubbed the most dangerous city outside of war zones. These kinds of activities all fall under ...
Johannesburg
Posted by ramtuli
... that is very large indeed. MANY things to do to name a few: Gold Reef City, Aparthieds museum, Lesedi Cultural Village, Soweto, Elephant Sanctuary, Sun City, Sterkfontein Caves, Maropeng (cradle of human kind), variuos zoo's, and a lot more. When you ...
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