ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on urban areas where planning was more institutionalised, structured, legitimised and executed under the pretext of development. It explores the reconceptualisation of Soweto through the heritagisation and museumification of the past, which demonstrates triumph over apartheid. The hub of Vilakazi Street has become a social, economic, historical and political symbol to delegitimise apartheid planning by redeploying its existing relics. The Vilakazi Street mirrors the apartheid planning, political activism, resistance to apartheid unjust laws and conflict with the police. It also features the attack of the Mandela house in the 1980s by some community members who alleged wrongdoing by Winnie and her Mandela Football club activities. The chapter argues for a paradigm shift, away from the hagiography of a dominant African National Congress (ANC) perspective, which equates the ANC with the grand narratives of colonialism and apartheid that were based on historical falsification and the myth of white cultural superiority and nationalism.
