Soweto is a former township from the times of Apartheid.

Places to visit includes: African Institute of Art & Funda Community Centre:

Avalon Cemetery:

EKhaya Soweto Neighbourhood Museum: Local arts and crafts on display, many made from recycled materials; the exhibits change as the centre undergoes continuous renewal.

Hector Petersen Square:

Nelson Mandela's House: The modest bungalow where Mandela and his wife Winnie lived in the 1950s and early 1960s, before he went to prison and she into exile in the Free State.

Freedom Square It is the place where the Freedom Charter was adopted as the guiding document of a broad alliance of various political and cultural formations.