So We Too Tours - Vilakazi Street | TheGreenCityStartup
We hop onto a So We Too Tours bus and take a journey to the world famous Vilakazi Street in Soweto. We get a guided tour of the street and its landmarks. This is a tourist favourite and is sure to be exciting!
VILAKAZI STREET TOUR SOWETO -JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA (DRIVE THROUGH VLOG)
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Right in the heart of South Africa’s largest, and the world’s most famous, township (so big, it’s practically a city in its own right) Vilakazi Street is where Nelson Mandela spent the first couple of nights upon his release after 27 years of imprisonment, with his former wife, Winnie Mandela. Number 8115 Orlando West was also where he lived between 1946 and 1962.
The Vilakazi Street
Just about every tour through Soweto stops at Vilakazi Street. There is reason enough. It is probably the most famous street in the huge Soweto township in Johannesburg.
Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu lived here – how many places can claim that two Nobel Prize winners lived in the same street. In fact, Tutu, as he is more fondly known, still lives here with his wife Leah, and when he's in town he is said to stroll the streets.
Mandela's house has become a museum. It is called the Mandela House Museum and is open for public tours during the week. But there is more to Vilakazi Street. A block away from here Hector Peterson was killed by police during the students' uprising of June 16 1976, today celebrated as Youth Day. Now the Hector Peterson Museum and memorial stand on the corner of Moema and Vilakazi Streets.
Dr BW Vilakazi, after whom the street is named, was a poet, novelist and intellectual, who wrote in numerous indigenous languages. He was also the first black man to teach at Wits, the University of the Witwatersrand, even if he had to be employed as a 'language assistant' because of bureaucracy that did not allow black lecturers. Later, armed with a PhD in literature, he helped develop the written form of both isiZulu and siSwati, and helped put together the isiZulu dictionary.
Now, because of Vilakazi street's popularity, it includes a couple of well known restaurants – Nambitha and Sakhumzi - that serve local cuisine to tourists, with prices to match, but it is also home to the only community television station in the city, Soweto TV, broadcast from a classroom at the local primary school.
Vilakazi Street, Soweto
Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Springboks parade tour reaches Vilakazi Street, Soweto
The heroes of the 2019 Rugby World Cup have begun their five-day tour this morning, starting with an epic crawl across Gauteng. The Springboks team has arrived in Vilakazi Street, Soweto.
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Vilakazi Street is the only street in the world to house 2 Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Visiting Vilakazi Street ranks very high on the list of things to do and see when in Johannesburg, South Africa, as it is full of culture, history and vibrant places to hang out and eat.
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Our Visit To Soweto, South Africa | Township Tours | Travel Vlog | Family Vlog
In this travel vlog we visited Soweto, a township near Johannesburg, South Africa. We arrived in Johannesburg fresh from a safari. We stayed in the Oasis Hotel in Rivonia. We dropped our bags and our way to Soweto. We toured the Mandela House, and saw Tutu House in Vilakazi street. Soweto features greatly in the history of South Africa.
Oasis Hotel ( is a boutique hotel in Rivonia, South Africa. It is run by a family and is absolutely beautiful. It is tastily decorated in antiques. Each of us had our own rooms and my kids shared.
We had a tour of the Apartheid Museum and walked around Vilakazi Street where we did some shopping.
Vilakazi Street restaurants are actually very nice. We walked passed Sakhumuzi restaurants where it was very busy.
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Vilakazi Street, Soweto - a celebration of Madiba's life
Vilakazi Street, Soweto - ordinary South Africans express their love for Nelson Mandela through song and dance. This video clip was filmed on 6 December 2013.
Inside Mandela's Soweto home in SOWETO Vilakazi Street South Afrika
Usually no camera's are allowed inside Nelson Mandela's Soweto home, but I am a person who pushes for what I want and therefore I present to you the 1st YouTube clip of a tour of the INSIDE OF Mandela's home, Vilakazi Street which is Soweto's most famous street and the only street in the world to have house TWO NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS, being Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. We also drive past Hector Pieterson School where the Students were killed in the Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1967 while protesting against Afikaans being used as their medium of education. Many more video's to come so subscribe to my video's.
Vilakazi street set to become an even bigger tourist attraction
The popular area around Vilakazi street in Soweto is set to become an even bigger tourist attraction. Vilakazi is the only street in the world where two Nobel Laureates have lived, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. It is also near the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West where Hector Pieterson was shot and killed during the Soweto uprising in 1976. The Department of Tourism has stepped in over problems like parking. To discuss we're joined by the Director General of Tourism, Victor Tharage.
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Soweto, South Africa
Recorded April 14, 2012
My visit to Soweto, South Africa includes...
00:18 Drive through housing projects
05:18 Vilakazi Street
06:41 Sakhumzi Restaurant
08:00 Archbishop Desmond Tutu's House
08:39 Nelson Mandela's House
13:12 Hector Pieterson Memorial
16:30 Winnie Mandela House
16:50 Orlando Towers
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A day at Vilakazi Street in Orlando West, Soweto
A day at Vilakazi Street in Orlando West, Soweto
South Africans on Vilakazi Street, where Mandela used to live, talks about their plans for memorial
South Africans gathered on Tuesday to pay their respects to Nelson Mandela at Vilakazi Street in Soweto where he lived as a young man, as elsewhere in Johannesburg thousands attended a memorial service for the former leader.
Presidents, foreign dignitaries and celebrities were joining more than 50-thousand South Africans at the main memorial service at the FNB stadium in Soweto.
But many local residents, fearing there would be no room at the stadium, were converging at other locations that were significant in the life of the Nobel peace laureate.
Police and residents gathered at Vilakazi Street, placing flowers and candles in front of Mandela's former house, and taking pictures in front of a large banner commemorating the day.
Crowds wanting to attend the memorial service at the FNB stadium arrived very early in the morning and some even slept outside the stadium, bracing the morning rain, so as to get a chance to get inside the stadium.
Soweto's Vilakazi Street has been the address of two Nobel peace laureates: retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who still occasionally visits his Vilakazi Street home, and Mandela.
Mandela returned to No. 8115 Vilakazi St. after 27 years in prison; the house is now a tiny museum.
After the memorial at the FNB stadium, Mandela's body will lie in state for three days at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, once the seat of white power, before burial Sunday in his rural childhood village of Qunu in Eastern Cape Province.
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Vilakazi Street - focal point for the uprising against apartheid
We met Annette whose brother Hector Pieterson was shot dead during the Soweto uprising.
Nelson Mandela impersonator at Vilakazi Street, Soweto
Nelson Mandela impersonator at Vilakazi Street, Soweto
Vilakazi Street Soweto
The Soweto home of the late Nelson Mandela
Speech About Nelson Mandela - Vilakazi Street - Soweto - South Africa - January 2011
Speech About Nelson Mandela - Vilakazi Street - Soweto - South Africa - January 2011
8117 Vilakazi Street - Soweto - South Africa - January 2011
8117 Vilakazi Street - Soweto - South Africa - January 2011