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Commemorate June 16, 1976 Youth Uprising against Aparthed
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June 16, 1976 student protests against the ruling National Party’s apartheid regime which forced children, from black only schools, to be taught in Afrikaans
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Our resident guide - Gugi
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Bob, Suzanne & Dawn with our resident tour guides - Gugi and Hector Pieterson's Sister Antionette Sithole
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Our Soweto & (Kliptown) local guide - Gugi with his Pittsburgh Steelers Cap
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The dying Hector Pieterson after being shot by South African police. His sister, Antoinette Sithole, runs beside them.
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Monument to commemorate Hector Pieterson and others
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Hector Pieterson monument - Kliptown
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Regina Mundi - Largest Roman Catholic Church in South Africa
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The Congress of the People The Congress of the People was a dramatic affair held over two days and attended by 3 000 delegates from all over the country, including 320 Indian, 230 coloured and 112 white South Africans.
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Kliptown - Freedom Square, a place where the Freedom Charter was adopted as the guiding document of the Congress Alliance. This was a gathering of various political and cultural formations representing different constituencies to map a way forward in the
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In the dark days of early apartheid rule half a century ago, on 26 June 1955, over 3 000 representatives of resistance organisations made their way through police cordons to gather on a dusty square in Kliptown, then a freehold area 40km south of Johannes
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The Freedom Charter Monument. tower. The engraved 10 Freedom Clauses.
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Gugi describing the 10 clauses of the Freedom Charter in the Freedom Charter Open Air Tower
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Freedom Charter Tower in Soweto (Kliptown) is the oldest district in Soweto, famous as the site known as the Congress of the People, where 3 000 gathered together in 1955 to write the Freedom Charter. It later served as the basis for South Africa liberal
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The ceiling of the Freedom Charter Museum Tower
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Gugi explaining the History pertaining to the Memorial Site
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Hector Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo after being shot by South African police. His sister, Antoinette Sithole, runs beside them. Hector was one of the first students killed.
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Gugi & Marcia
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Walter Sisulu Square. Walter Sisulu was a delegate at the 1955 Congress of the People, a major figure in the anti-apartheid struggle, deputy president of the ANC. The 10 towers represent the 10 clauses of the Freedom Charter
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Having Antoinette Sithole - Hector Pieterson's sister and Gugi as our resident Soweto tour guides made it very SPECIAL
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High School students protested in response to the introduction of Afrikaans language as the medium of instruction in local schools
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Our astute leaders who guided us through our African Travels. Russell Gammon (on left - from Zimbabwe) and Grant Nel from Botswana
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Selling local wares
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Kliptown (Soweto)
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Soweto
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The history of Soweto goes back to the discovery of gold in 1885. George Harrison has made his momentous discovery of gold bearing reefs at Langlaagte outside the present City of Johannesburg. Thousands of people of all races and from four corners of the
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Soweto is a sprawling township, or more accurately, a cluster of townships on the south-western flank of Johannesburg. Soweto was created in the 1930s, with Orlando the first township established. In the 1950s, more black people were relocated there.
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Orlando Power Station Cooling Towers
