Soweto day tour is one of the most impressive day tours in the Pretoria/ Johannesburg area. 

Soweto tour-guides live in Soweto or similar places and they will take you to different squatter camps like the Nelson Mandela Camp and Kliptown Camp next to Freedom Square.

You will visit a shebeen and Regina Mundi Catholic church in Rockville where people meet yearly to remember the victims of the uprising on June, 16th 1976. On this day four school kids got shot by the police. It happened after a demonstration of school kids that were against the official school language Afrikaans. The peaceful demonstration turned into an uprising and became headline in the news all over the world.

You will see the original little house in which Winnie and Nelson Mandela lived before Nelson got put into jail at Robben Island near Cape Town. This house is now a museum not too far away from Bishop Desmond Tutu's residence and the clinic where the victims of the uprising was officially declared dead. There is a monument for Hector Pieterson, one of the school kids that got shot and the Hector Pieterson museum has reopened on June 16, 2001. Hector wasn't the 1st, but is the most famous.

All in all Soweto Tour is a very informative tour guided by people who live there. They don't just show you the squatter camps but also the other parts of Soweto: Villas with neatly cut lawn and a Mercedes parked in the driveway. You will get the complete historic background of how Soweto came into life. You might even see Winnie Mandela who sometimes sorts things out at the family museum. You may have a chance to visit the biggest Football Stadium on the African continent which was used for the opening and closing matches during the 2010 FIFA World Cup which recently took place recently.  The tour will expose you to the world class world of football. Expect to be asked for donations for instance at the street kids shelter. The history of South Africa lies in Soweto!