Breakfast is a combination buffet and kitchen order. The buffet is amazing. Selections abound. Our eggs benedict are marvelous.
The tour driver picks up our guide, Sapati, at the Apartheid Museum. It will have to wait for another visit. The half day Soweto tour begins with their upscale neighborhood. Since the fall of apartheid, Soweto is changing. This neighborhood is the best example of that.
It doesn't take long to find the anticipated Soweto. Garbage piles along the road. A view of hostel housing blocks once occupied by gold mine workers.
The most common form of housing is the "matchbox" house; a government provided form of housing. For years natives could not gain deed to the property. Once they were allowed ownership many made significant improvements to their properties while others built shacks on their property to rent out.
Next we have a walkabout at a local market near the largest hospital in all of Africa.
Across the street, Sapati arranges for tour of a matchbox house. Most have asbestos roofs.
We've seen the upscale, we've seen the common. Now we view the shantytowns.
The next stop is the park where they've erected various monuments, a luxury hotel, a cultural center and other stuff to the establishment of South Africa's version of the US Bill of Rights. Inside of this cone is a round flat piece of granite with the text etched.
The next stop is at the Hector Peterson museum. He is the young boy who was the first casualty of the student uprising. In fact his killing ignited the uprising. It turned peaceful protest in the deaths of hundreds if not thousands and the flight of more than 10,000 from the country.
We pass though Soweto's "Our final stop of the day is at the Mandela House.
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