It was my friend Nandi’s birthday on Saturday and we went to Soweto as she had requested to celebrate. We started off at the Soweto Towers where she was going to bungee jump. The Soweto Towers are very pretty and also quite tall, the whole establishment is run like a well-oiled machine. Nandi did her jump and it honestly didn’t look that bad or scary from an observer’s point of view and she didn’t have to hang around upside down for long, she was immediately hoisted down and relieved from the ropes. She paid R480 for the jump and an extra R100 for pictures and video of her jump.
Afterwards we went to the Hector Peterson Memorial Museum (where we were not allowed to take any pictures) and it was quite an emotional journey. If you’re a black South African, it’s very difficult to walk out of the museum unscathed of any emotion. I learnt so much more about the struggle especially about all the events that led to the riots and marches of 1976. There are testimonials from students who were there as well as images that I had not seen before. There’s video footage of interviews of the students and even some of the policeman that fired the gunshots at the students. If you want to get a full understanding of the build up of the events of June 16 1976, I highly recommend it.
We then drove to the Soweto Hotel on Walter Sisulu Square for a late lunch and to give Nandi her gifts. The food at the hotel was average and the service was absolutely horrible, the food took 2 hours to be served and they got one of my friends order wrong 4 times and she eventually didn’t eat anything. They had to serve us a round of free drinks just to calm us down. Besides that drama, we had an awesome day and Nandi definitely jumped into her new age with a bang! 
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