Apartheid Museum
Kruger
Apartheid Museum (Northern Parkway and Gold Reef Roads, Ormonde, Johannesburg) — The Apartheid Museum, close to downtown Johannesburg, focuses on the notorious system of racial discrimination that became synonymous with South Africa from 1948 (when the white-minority National Party was voted into power) until 1994, the year in which the country held its first fully democratic elections.
Visitors to the museum are greeted with a very real reflection of what it was like to live in a racially segregated society. The museum has two entrances labeled ‘White’ and ‘Non-white’, and depending on which ticket you are issued, you will be ushered through one of the two. The laws that governed which entrances people could use or which bus to catch were classed as ‘petty apartheid’, but there were far more serious overtones to this system of racial classification. Under apartheid, the majority of people in the country were dispossessed of land, economic opportunity and their democratic right to choose their own leaders, simply because they were black. Admission: R100 (adult), R85 (students / children). Hours: 9 am – 5 pm (daily).