 At last, a proper African bar |
 between a side road and a makeshift football pitch |
 Also, it's a backpackers lodge |
 and a locals football pitch |
 The local wildlife |

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 Aspirations to be a beach bar. Footprints are not allowed to remain |
 No rain in winter |
 hence the parched grass |
 The team tests out the bikes - a few repairs were needed |
 Tim raring to go |

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 Tim's going to get help with the pedalling |

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 Our guide for the day |
 Orlando Stadium + some of Soweto, and our guide |
 There's a story about these. |

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 One of the original male 'hostels' |
 Now women are allowed & there's electricity, but no tarmac... |
 ...but it's still a shared water tap & loo block |
 This is the official rubbish collection area |
 All of the kids follow us around |
 and one of them took a shine to Alison |
 This is outside the local shabeen |
 Joburg beer brewed from maize, about shandy strength and rather sweet. |
 Also comes in less traditional cartons |
 But if you drink enough of it then? |

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 Replacement housing with running water & indoor private loos. One hopes the sewers won't overflow either. |
 Our guide explains the corrupt allocation system. |
 Off through Meadowlands |
 Towards the Hector Petersen Museum |

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 The Hector Petersen memorial. Back then many children were given English or Afrikaan names to try to overcome discrimination. |

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 The 'rescuer' here had to flee South Africa because of this photo and he disappeared in Nigeria. |
 A thirteen year old victim of the Apartheid regime. |
 The National Party tried to impose Afrikaans (instead of English) as the teaching language in schools |
 15,000 school children protested; the police shot at them. The rest of the world woke up. |
 We all set off again - a mobile traffic hazard ;-). |
 The street where Nelson Mandela & Desmond Tutu lived. |
 Mandela's house, down the road is now a major tourist attraction. |
 View from Mandela's house. The power station, built 1932 but not for the locals - all power went to North Johannesburg. |
 Desmond Tutu's house. |
 We trek up to a lookout point. |
 Another landscape. Orlando West to the left & Orlando East beyond the main road & river. |

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 The power station eventually provided local power in the 50's... |
 But only for these massive floodlights which were used for detecting people breaking the 9pm curfew. |
 Winnie Mandels's house somewhere. |
 A local Shabeen. It would be more reassuring if this sign wasn't needed |
 But beer, 'kota' and convivial locals are allowed - 'The Shack' shabeen. |
 A brazier full of coal. It must be very cheap here. |
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