Soweto and Apartheid Museum Tour

Overview

Get to know the city of Johannesburg in a day. From the famous Soweto Township to the emotional Apartheid Museum, and Hector Pieterson and Mandela House Museums, this day tour promises to be filled with plenty of South African history.

What happens in the Soweto and Apartheid Museum Tour?

Experience a full day of history and culture with our Soweto and Apartheid Museum Tour—ideal for day-trippers to Johannesburg. The tour takes you on a journey through the history of Apartheid and the devastating results of the hard times during the political struggle in South Africa. 

Discover authentic culture and history through the expert storytelling of our qualified and professional guides. We start our day with a half day Soweto guided tour and finish the tour at the Apartheid museum at around 5pm in the afternoon. After a few hours in the Apartheid Museum you will feel like you were in the townships during the 70s and 80s, ducking and dodging police bullets or a teargas canister, or even marching and chanting with school children.

Soweto and Apartheid Museum Tour Itinerary

Tour Starts

• Stop at Soccer City Stadium for photos.
• We drive past Baragwanath Hospital, which is the biggest hospital in the southern hemisphere with more than 3500 beds.
• Make a stop at Kliptown informal settlement for a short walk about with a local resident guide who will share a story about their way of life in this settlement and the daily challenges they face.
• Take a brief stop at the Hector Pieterson memorial site for a briefing about the history of the 1976 students uprising. We do not go inside the museum as a lot of the same information is repeated at the Apartheid Museum.
• Next stop is the Mandela House Museum for a full guided tour.
• Drive around Vilakazi Street which is the only street in the world that has produced two Nobel peace prize winners, namely Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
• Enjoy lunch at one of the restaurants in Soweto or at the Apartheid Museum restaurant.
• Apartheid Museum tour – the museum is large and a brochure that includes a map will be provided at the entrance of the museum for ease of navigation during the tour.
• The tour ends and guests will be driven back to their drop off point after the educational and informative day.