The Apartheid Museum

Had the day to tour Johannesburg, including several sites in Soweto, the southwst township where the blacks moved to work in the gold mines- there are nice houses mixed with shantytown houses. Freedom Square, commemorating the 1955 popular commandments written by the people to the constitution (of course never adopted...) and the square and museum commemorating the student uprisings in 1976 after being told they had to learn in school by the Afrikan language, and protested. Many children were killed in what was a peaceful demonstration. Nelson Mandela's house, which is there in Soweto. After he was released from his long imprisonment, he thought he could go back and live there, but there were too many people surrounding him. It's now a museum.
Last stop was the Apartheid Museum, built in 2001. A wonderfully put together, emotional story in film, photos, text and artifacts, of racial discrimination and the struggle to overthrow it,
After entering through either the "white" or "non-white" gate according to your ticket, one climbs this ramp with mirrored portraits of descendants of the racially mixed groups of people who came in 1886 to mine for gold. Many of these discriminated against. Many of the walls are cages to feel like prisons.......There are starkly beautifully landscaped garden spaces..... and 7 pillars of the "new" 1994-96 fundamental values in the new constitution. (democracy, equality, reconciliation, diversity, responsibility, respect, freedom.)

Edit: I tried to put myself in the mirror out of the photo but only managed half. :-) The lady in the white shirt was a part of our group. The "white" entry came out at a higher place on this ramp than the "non-white" entry. From the top of the ramp you can see the front of these people -and there is info in the museum about each. From the top of this ramp, there was a wonderful view of the land, and then one descends again to a garden space to enter the spacious indoor part of the museum.