Vilakazi Street

This guide to Vilakazi Street in Johannesburg walks the only street on earth that has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize laureates: Nelson Mandela, whose small brick house welcomed him back after twenty-seven years in prison one February night in 1990, and Desmond Tutu, the archbishop who turned down a house in the whites-only suburb of Houghton to live here instead. You'll hear what the neighborhood looked like in the 1970s, when most residents shared one telephone between tens of thousands of people. A listening tip: look for the bullet holes and scorch marks left on Mandela's house.