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There are many fun and exciting places to visit while you are in Johannesburg. From outdoor recreation at聽聽to the聽, there is lots to see and enjoy. We cannot list all the attractions, but here are a few that you might want to check out.

For those who don’t mind a bit of walking,聽聽run a variety of specialised tours of the Johannesburg inner city and surrounding areas. Visit their website or contact Jo Buitendach to find out more.

罢丑别听, located about 9 km from the conference venue, details some of the more sobering aspects of South Africa’s racialised past. The exhibits have been assembled and organised by a multi-disciplinary team of curators, film-makers, historians and designers. They include provocative film footage, photographs, text panels and artefacts illustrating the events and human stories that are part of the horrific period in our history, known as apartheid.

Situated just across the road from the Apartheid museum,聽聽is an amusement park set in a 19th century Johannesburg gold mining town atmosphere. Apart from the amusement rides and rollercoasters, which are great fun for kids, there are also live shows, a casino and you can go down a real gold mine!聽You can even see聽the gold-smelting process in action.聽Children under聽12聽used to be given聽the opportunity to try聽lift a聽bar of gold –聽if they could聽do so using only two聽fingers they could keep the bar.聽(Disclaimer:聽a聽bar of聽gold weighs approximately聽13聽kg and is worth聽about US$ 746,944, so start training you kids now).

Take a trip to Soweto.聽Vilakazi聽Street is the only street in the world to have housed two Nobel Prize聽laureates: Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.聽聽is now a museum. This is where Madiba lived from 1946 to 1962, the year he was arrested for treason.聽The house is a humble abode of four inter-leading rooms that today contain a collection of memorabilia, paintings and photographs of the Mandela family.

Situated a few minutes walk from the conference venue,聽聽takes visitors back to late 19th century Johannesburg opulence. A stark contract to the condition in which most of the population lived.

聽is a Nature Reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site.聽It is the last conserved remnant of Johannesburg’s ridges as they were before the discovery of gold in 1886. Its geology goes back three billion years. Stone tools show that Early Stone Age man camped here as long as 500聽000 years ago. There is a Late Stone Age living floor. Within the last 1聽000 years Iron Age immigrants arrived, and remains of their kraal walls can be found on the northern slopes. In 1963 an iron-smelting furnace was excavated and can be seen today.