To mark the 30th anniversary of the uprising of the Soweto schoolchildren and youth, the Pretoria Diplomatic Association (PDA) and the City of Johannesburg organised an one-day bus trip to Soweto for foreign diplomats based in Pretoria and their family members. The trip took place on July 8th, 2006. On behalf of the PDA the executive organiser was Mr Marinko Raos, Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Pretoria and the member of the PDA Board.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the uprising of the Soweto schoolchildren and youth, the Pretoria Diplomatic Association (PDA) and the City of Johannesburg organised an one-day bus trip to Soweto for foreign diplomats based in Pretoria and their family members. The trip took place on July 8th, 2006. On behalf of the PDA the executive organiser was Mr Marinko Raos, Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Pretoria and the member of the PDA Board.
The participants of the outing have visited a couple of places of historical interest: the house in which Mr Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the former State President of South Africa (the first democratically elected one); Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum (Hector Pieterson was the boy killed by South African apartheid regime police at the beginning of the Soweto uprising in 1976); Oppenheimer's Gardens and the Regina Mundi catholic church.
After the lunch at the popular Soweto Wandies' Tavern, the participants went on to visit the “World of Beer” venue of the South African Breweries (SAB) in Newtown, Johannesburg city centre. The outing helped the diplomats and their family members to get better acquainted with the history of South Africa and with the everyday life of ordinary South Africans. It also served as a bonding trip for themselves.
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