Hector Pieterson Memorial

Soweto tour

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October 12th 2012
We had an assignment to make our own our today and so we decide on a Soweto Tour! We made it a full day tour visiting three attractions in the area. We rode a bus to Soweto that we hired for the day. It took about 1 hour to reach our destination. The first attraction was the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto. Here you learn of the apartheid and the influence it had on the people of Soweto and the ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more