It’s the only country in the world where two Nobel Prize winners lived on the same street
You can see a number of heritage sites on a day trip to Soweto. Vilakazi Street in Soweto has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived here at some point in their lives. In 1984, Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for his non-violent fight against the apartheid regime.
Nine years later in 1993, Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with then-president F.W. de Klerk as an award for their role in bringing about the peaceful end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela then went on to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994.
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