SOWETO TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

POPULAR DESTINATION

  • Orlando Stadium hosted the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert on June 10, 2010

ORLANDO EAST

  • The Nelson Mandela National Museum, commonly referred to as Mandela House, is the house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962.

ORLANDO WEST

  • The Apartheid Museum is a museum illustrating apartheid and the 20th-century history of South Africa. The museum, part of the Gold Reef City complex in Johannesburg, was opened in November 2001.

ORMONDE

  • The Dobsonville Stadium, formerly Volkswagen Dobsonville Stadium and also referred to as Dobsie Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. The venue is managed by Stadium Management SA. It is mostly used for football matches, but is also equipped with an athletics track.

DOBSENVILLE

  • In 1974, the passionate golfers of Soweto came together to form the first golf club in one of the world’s most iconic township’s entrenched in rich political and cultural history.

PIMVILLE

  • Orlando Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station in Soweto, South Africa. The power station was commissioned at the end of the Second World War and served Johannesburg for over 50 years.

ORLANDO WEST

  • Walter Sisulu Square, formally known as the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, is located in the heart of Kliptown in Soweto, South Africa.

KLIPTOWN

  • Gold Reef City is an amusement park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located on an old gold mine which closed in 1971, the park is themed around the gold rush that started in 1886 on the Witwatersrand, and the buildings in the park are designed to mimic this period.

JOHANNESBURG SOUTH

  • Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital is a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the largest hospital in Africa and seventh largest hospital in the world. It has 6,760 staff members, 3,400 beds and occupies 70 ha. The hospital is located in Soweto, south of Johannesburg

DIEPKLOOF

  • Outdoor museum devoted to the sculptures & other works of artist & traditional healer Credo Mutwa.

JABAVU

  • Hector Peterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising.

ORLANDO WEST

  • First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City and The Calabash, is an association football and Rugby union stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa.

NASREC

  • This showpiece project was to be built near a major shopping centre and adjacent to a large outdoor amphitheatre in Soweto’s Jabulani neighbourhood. (The nation’s infrastructure building effort in tandem with the World Cup also included the new Gautrain system — dedicated rapid rail lines to link downtown Johannesburg, Sandton, Pretoria and the region’s international airport, as well as major sports venues in Johannesburg and elsewhere.

JABULANI

  • The University of Johannesburg, colloquially known as UJ, is a public universitylocated in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg was established on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University(RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. Prior to the merger, the Daveyton and Soweto campuses of the former Vista University had been incorporated into RAU. As a result of the merger of Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), it is common for alumni to refer to the university as RAU.

NASREC