The red-brick house
Bullet marks.
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The small red-brick house on Vilakazi Street in Soweto where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962 before his arrest, which he returned to for some days after leaving prison in 1990 and later donated to become a national museum. It is one of the small identical houses the government built for Soweto's black residents, and its walls still bear bullet holes and scorch marks from attacks. Inside are original furnishings, photographs and citations, and the boxing championship belt given to him by Sugar Ray Leonard. Vilakazi Street itself is famous as the only street in the world where two Nobel Peace Prize winners lived, Mandela and Desmond Tutu, whose house still stands a few steps away. The street has restaurants, cafés and street performers. Tickets are about R180 for international adults, per visitor guides. Soweto is usually visited on a guided tour that includes the nearby Hector Pieterson memorial and the township's neighbourhoods.
Bullet marks.
From Sugar Ray.
Two Nobel homes.
8115 Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto
It is the only street where two Nobel Peace Prize winners lived: Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
