Enjoy the Heritage Weekend celebration
A great way to celebrate Joburg’s exciting, and sometimes turbulent history on September 24 and 25
SEPTEMBER is Heritage Month and there’s a great way to celebrate Joburg’s exciting, and sometimes turbulent history, on September 24 and 25.
The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation will be running walking and bus tours across the city, catering for all tastes and interests, as well as four children’s tours, a book sale, a photographic exhibition and tea garden at Holy Family College.
They will also be hosting a screening of the first film that addressed the black experience in the City of Gold, ”Jim comes to Joburg”.
Children are invited to join the foundation in a beautiful, Edwardian attic classroom and experience what school was like 100 years ago. Sit in old-style wooden desks and learn to write in cursive with dip pens, inkwells and blotting paper. Find out how children used to learn to read, and learn what a dunce cap was used for! Children’s tours cost R30.
The more you explore, the less you pay! Book for one tour and pay R70, book for two tours and pay R120, book for three tours and pay R150.
Heritage Weekend tours depart from Holy Family College, situated at 40 Oxford Road, Parktown. Enter from Third Avenue or from Oxford Road.
For more information, visit www.joburgheritage.org.za, Brett McDougall on 082 410 0251, or Eira Bond mail@joburgheritage.co.za
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