Soweto

Soweto is the sprawling township southwest of Johannesburg that became synonymous with the anti-apartheid struggle, most notably through the 1976 Soweto Uprising. Vilakazi Street is the only street in the world to have housed two Nobel Peace Prize laureates — Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. The Hector Pieterson Museum documents the uprising, and the Orlando Towers cooling chimneys serve as a graphic landmark of the township's industrial heritage.