Monday, 22 June 2015

Trip to Soweto

In the last one month,yesterday,6th of June was very historical to me.Dr.Merlene and Joan decided to take us for a trip to Soweto,this was the first time in life I was going there,I had previously hard many stories about this township but I had  a chance to visit.
How Soweto came to be is a story for itself, most of the people came looking for employment in the mines and they gave them free accommodation I don't know how this looked like those years but the truth is what I saw there yesterday was a state of emergency,I just can't imagine people living without water and electricity,because this is a human right,I just don't know if there is nothing that these peoples government can do for them.
Sad news aside,I managed to see the stadium where the 2010 Fifa world cup took place at,its amazing,so magnificent.
We proceeded to the Mandela house,and the history this house unvails is one of pain and persistence.I don't know how it was during apartheid but am sure my brothers from South Africa suffered.
I thought I had seen enough at the Mandela house,until I got to the Pierson Hector Museum,this place gives a window to what happened in those days,how man can be so cruel to fellow man when he chooses to...Personally, I shed a tear or two, no one deserves to go through the kind of suffering and torture that these guys went through.



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