Friday, December 07, 2007

Johannesburg and Soweto






Everybody said"Don't go to Jo-Burg it is dangerous". Well my flight to Ghana left out of Jo-Burg so I went in for one day. My real goal was to do a Soweto tour and see the Appartheid museum. Soweto is where school children protested and started the movement that really lead to the end of Appartheid. The church is where many of the children ran to when the police started shooting real bullets at them. There holes in the church to show where police shot inside the church. It was really interesting to see the very rich with the very poor all in one area. I was surprised at what it was really like compared to what I had perceived. The Appartheid museum is an excellent display of the years of work it took to end this oppresive movement. A very moving day in South Africa for my last day.

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