History comes alive with educational tour
The event was held in honour of Heritage Month and the historical sites that form part of the local heritage.
Mogale City Local Municipality, in conjunction with Thuto Lefa Secondary School and Munsieville Tourism Association, hosted the Heritage Day Awareness Programme in September.
The event was held in honour of Heritage Month and the historical sites that form part of the local heritage.
The programme commenced at 9.30am and was well attended by various stakeholders. Other attendees included learners and educators from Thuto Lefa Secondary School, dignitaries and officials from Mogale City Local Municipality and officials from Munsieville Tourism Association.
The Member of the Mayoral Committee for Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation, councillor Charmaine Ntlatlane-Nzwane, was also present at the event and gave an opening address highlighting the importance of educating learners about their history.
The historical sites that were visited include the iconic Pentecostal Holiness Church, Exit House, Missionary School, Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s childhood home and the home of one of the Munsieville Four in Maqoki Street.
The Pentecostal Holiness Church was used by freedom fighters as a meeting place. The church had bunkers where the freedom fighters could hide from the police. This is the place where Winnie Mandela made her famous speech in the 1980s that informers or “mpipis” would be necklaced with a tyre and killed for their disloyalty to the liberation movement.
The attendees also had the honour of meeting Mama Gloria Radebe, who is the younger sister of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Mama Gloria shared with the audience some of the stories of their childhood and the hardships they faced during the apartheid regime as the Tutu siblings. The tour ended at the Desmond Tutu Home before the participants went back to the School Board venue for lunch.
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