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A visit to three of Johannesburg’s best-known museums is a must for anyone wanting to understand South Africa’s political past.
There is perhaps no other site of incarceration in South Africa that imprisoned the sheer number of world-renowned men and women as those held within the walls of Constitution Hill’s Old Fort, Women’s Jail and Number Four.
The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre explores the history of genocide in the 20th century with a focus on the case studies of the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa.
Museum Africa, Johannesburg’s major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct’s old fruit and vegetable market.