In Mandela Footsteps Full Day Tour

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Stop At: 1Fox - The Sheds, 1 Fox Street Corner Alexander Street, Johannesburg 2001 South Africa

This is the building that once housed the law firm of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. Between 1952 and 1956, Mandela and Tambo had a thriving law practice , trying to help others who were accused of crime against the state and dispbeing the draconian laws of the time. Now its a National Heritage Site.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: 11 Kotze Street Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct, Johannesburg 2001 South Africa

There is perhaps no other site of incarceration in South Africa that imprisoned the sheer number of world-renowned men and women as those held within the walls of the Old Fort, the Women's Jail and Number Four. Nelson Mandela. Mahatma Gandhi. Joe Slovo. Albertina Sisulu. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Fatima Meer. They all served time here. But the precinct also confined tens of thousands of ordinary people during its 100-year history: men and women of all races, creeds, ages and political agendas; the indigenous and the immigrant; the everyman and the elite. In this way, the history of every South African lives here.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Liliesleaf, 7 George Avenue, Rivonia, Sandton 2191 South Africa

Tucked away in the leafy suburb of Rivonia, Johannesburg is Liliesleaf. Once the nerve centre of the liberation movement and a place of refuge for its leaders, today Liliesleaf is one of South Africa’s foremost, award-winning heritage sites, where the journey to democracy in South Africa is honoured.The South African Communist Party (SACP) set up a front company called Navian (Pty) Ltd through which Liliesleaf was purchased. The property was ideal; secluded in the peri-rural area of Rivonia. It provided a secure location where the underground leadership could meet. The purchase of Liliesleaf also coincided with the ANC’s decision to move from non-violent resistance to armed struggle in the protest against apartheid.

At the time of the purchase, ANC leader Nelson Mandela was underground. In late October 1961 he moved to Liliesleaf, following an invitation from the SACP.

In early December 1961 Arthur Goldreich, a member of the SACP, wife his wife Hazel and their two small children, Nicolas and Paul, moved onto the smallholding. The Goldreichs projected an acceptable white middle-class family façade while the thatched cottage and outbuildings concealed covert liberation activities.

Senior leaders of the liberation movement attended strategy meetings and sought shelter here. They included Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Bram Fischer, Joe Slovo, Ruth First, Raymond Mhlaba, Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein, Bob Hepple, Harold Wolpe, and Denis Goldberg.

Duration: 5 hours

Stop At: Mandela House, 8115 Orlando West Street, Johannesburg 1804 South Africa

Former South African President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and his family lived here from 1946 into the 1990’s. He donated the house to the Soweto Heritage Trust on
1 September 1997, to be used for the above purposes.

On 16 March 1999, the National Monuments Council declared the property a national monument In terms of Government notice 126 as published in the Government Gazette no. 19719, February 1999.

Duration: 2 hours