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Freedom Square

May 03
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Photojournalism

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Freedom Square was the last place we stopped on Friday morning in Soweto.  We spent quite a long time here because of a disasterous breakfast at the Soweto Hotel (on the square), and by the time we finished taking photos it was raining so we decided to head home.  Check out my Soweto tag for the other posts from the morning and the last trip we made.

We stopped at the brick tower in which the Bill of Rights is etched around an eternal flame (which wasn’t burning btw).  The top of the tower is open, and the opening is shaped like a cross to denote the rights of people to vote.

Constitution Tower

Bill of rights

X marks the spot

It was a fascinating place with all the seating areas built in the shape of crosses.  Around each of the 9 crosses, there were different acasia trees planted – each one indigenous to the province that cross represented.

The market is at the bottom of these enormous columns that border the square and is mostly covered with these tarpaulins.

Tarpaulins under cover

No entry

shopper

Veggie stall

These dried leaves are muti, which the guy selling them told me would fix my insides… to which Sefiso retorted “Ja, that’s because they’ll all come out”.  LOL!

Dried muti

Homemade car

Corner cafe

We’ll be going somewhere different the next time we all meet up for photos… hopefully to the JHB CBD and Newtown prescinct.

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