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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 […]
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 […]
