Mandela House

The modest brick house on Vilakazi Street in Soweto where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946, now a museum devoted to his life and family. Behind its small facade the rooms display photographs, honorary awards, family memorabilia and marks left by the violence of the apartheid years. The street is unusual for having been home to two Nobel Peace laureates, Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The house draws visitors seeking to understand the domestic setting of the liberation movement and forms a key stop on township heritage tours.