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The Wire Figures of the Soweto Uprising
One of the powerful memorials I encountered in Soweto was this sculpture commemorating the students who took part in the Soweto Uprising. On the morning of June 16, 1976, Soweto awoke like any other winter day. Parents left for work while thousands of schoolchildren gathered to peacefully protest the apartheid government’s decision to require Afrikaans […]
Nelson Mandela House
The first place I wanted to visit when I traveled to Johannesburg was Nelson Mandela’s house in Soweto. He was the most famous South African I knew, and the opportunity to visit the home where he and his family lived was at the top of my list. While there were many important sites connected with […]
Tutu House
During our tour of Soweto, we stopped outside the home of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Although we unable to go inside, we took time to reflect on the remarkable life and legacy of this extraordinary man. The blue plaque on the house commemorates Tutu’s decades-long struggle for justice and human rights and notes that this had been […]
Hector Pieterson Memorial
Visiting the Hector Pieterson Memorial on our tour of Soweto, was a historically powerful experience of our time in South Africa. This place felt deeply personal. The history that unfolded here in 1976 still lives vividly in the memory of South Africa and continues to shape the country today. The memorial commemorates the young students who […]
Winnie Nelson
We traveled to Johannesburg to teach, and before the seminar, we spent the day in Soweto. A high priority for me was to visit Nelson Mandela’s house. It is his history that I know the most about when it comes to South Africa. Arriving on Vilakazi Street, this is not a distant landmark set apart […]
Lilian Ngoyi
On our teaching trip to South Africa, we took a tour of Soweto and stopped outside a modest home that holds extraordinary history: the house of Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi. Lilian Ngoyi was one of the most prominent women in the anti-apartheid movement. A trade unionist and political leader, she became the first woman elected to […]
Lebos Tours
I have just returned from my first visit to Africa: South Africa, a journey that began primarily as a professional one. I traveled there to meet and work alongside fellow chiropractors, but I also felt a strong pull to explore and better understand the country itself. Before arriving, my knowledge of South Africa was quite […]
