joburg: here we come!

At 10am we left the hostel for a visit of Soweto (SOuth WEst TOwnship). On the way we stopped for some petrol (14R/L). Unlike in France, the employee filled the tank. Afterwards the guide showed us the FNB Stadium that hosted the first match of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Its location is symbolic because soccer, contrary to cricket and rugby, is for Black people. 

Soweto has a rich area, a middle-class one and a poor one. We walked in the slum where a woman invited us in her house. The roof was made of tin. There was no electricity and the people got their water from a common tap. Soweto is the biggest township in the whole Africa and 80% of its population are unemployed. 

Next we visited Nelson Mandela's house where he lived before he was imprisoned. It was a typical three-room house with toilet in the back. In his street lived a second Nobel Peace Prize: Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 

Then we visited the Pieterson Memorial which commemorates the death of students during the 1976 Soweto uprising. They had refused to be taught in Afrikaans, Afrikaaners' language. 

Tiphène and Liliana