Soweto.kml normal #Highlights_norm highlight #Highlights_over Soweto 0 Just outside Johannesburg, you´ll find Soweto, the largest of South Africa´s townships - a colourful mish-mash of shacks, matchbox houses and mansions. A former hotbed of anti-apartheid activity, must-see struggle sites include the Hector Peterson Museum and Memorial Square commemorating the 1976 Soweto Riots, and the Regina Mundi Catholic Church, the site of protest meetings during the uprising.

Get to know the locals at a shebeen (Tavern)

FNB Stadium. Credit: City of Johannesburg

Only on Vilakazi Street can you see the homes of two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Mandela´s home is now a museum, while the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication in historic Kliptown celebrates the birth of democracy. Soweto is renowned for the heart-warming hospitality of its people, sample a meal of pap and stew with local jazz at a traditional shebeen (tavern) or township restaurant.

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