• Late afternoon arrival in Cape Town and a private transfer to the Taj Hotel.
• Enjoy a reception and light dinner this evening at the hotel.

• Catch a ferry to Robben Island. For nearly 400 years, Robben Island was a place of banishment, exile, isolation and imprisonment. It was here that rulers sent those they regarded as political troublemakers. During the apartheid years Robben Island became internationally known for its institutional brutality. Some freedom fighters spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for their beliefs. Perhaps the most famous prisoner was Nelson Mandela. Our tour here will be led by a former political prisoner who will provide a very special insight into the hardships endured by many South Africans
• Return to the V&A Waterfront and walk directly to lunch near the ferry landing at the Cape Town Fish Market.
• After lunch walk to the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, the world’s largest non-profit museum of contemporary African art and the first of its kind to be established in Africa, where we will meet with a member of the curatorial team. 
• Enjoy dinner at the Gold Restaurant, which honors African culinary traditions. A 14-dish tasting menu will be served and there will be traditional music and dancing.

• Meet for a short walking tour of the area around hotel, including the Slave Lodge and Greenmarket Square.
• End at the District Six Museum, which celebrates the once-lively multiracial area that was destroyed during apartheid in the 1960’s and 1970’s when its 60,000 inhabitants were forcibly removed. Schedule permitting, we will be joined by Chrischene Julius, the museum's collections manager.
• Drive to Khayelitsha, South Africa’s largest township. Joining the group to provide personal insights will be Thando Sekame. Born in jail to a mother who had been arrested for acts of defiance against the state, like Trevor Noah he grew up as a Xhosa child battling issues of identity and was a member of the Liberation Movement.
• Visit the Bamphulele’s Education Center and Children’s Home. Meet with founder Rosalia Mashale, a remarkable woman and one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes of 2017. Enjoy a simple, traditional lunch at Rosie’s and learn about her work.
• Stop at the Isivivana Centre, a creative space which is home to a number of social change organizations and charities as well as a library, cafe and the sophisticated Bertha Movie House.
• Before returning to the hotel, stop in at Clarke's Bookstore. Founded in 1957 by Anthony Clarke as a secondhand bookshop, the current owners, Henrietta and Andre, began specializing in books on Africa with a particular focus on Southern Africa. Meet with the owners to hear more about this very special bookstore.
• Tonight dinner is at leisure. 

• Depart the hotel to meet with Justice Albie Sachs in his home in Clifton. A Freedom Fighter during the apartheid era, Judge Sachs helped create the new South African constitution, admired as one of the most progressive in the world. Hear first hand about his historic work and his tenure as one of the founding judges of the 11 seat Constitution Court. In 2005, Sachs wrote the opinion in the landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage in South Africa.
• Visit Bo Kaap, known for its colorful houses, many of which are national monuments and date back to the 1750s. The local inhabitants are 90% Muslim and a blend of cultures that descended from slaves imported by the Dutch in the 1700s.
• Enjoy lunch of Lekka Kombuis, a restaurant which celebrates Cape Malay food. Owner, Gamieda Jacobs, will meet the group and talk about Cape Malay cuisine 
• We have invited two team members of Dare to Know to join us for lunch. This activist organization and law center that brings together movement building, research, and litigation in campaigns to advance urban land justice in Cape Town with its campaign “Reclaim the City.”
• After lunch head to Kalk Bay, a small fishing town on the Cape Peninsula known for its raw beauty and stunning views. Meet with Traci Kwaai, a 6th generation fisher child from Kalk Bay and an activist. She leads the impactful and powerful "walk of remembrance," which covers a rich history of her community of Kalk Bay and the marginalization of the fishers. 
• Enjoy dinner at Olympia Café, which is a much loved bakery and restaurant at the very heart of the Kalk Bay community.
• After breakfast, weather permitting, take a cable-car ride up iconic Table Mountain. A nature reserve floating above the city’s heart. Table Mountain is Cape Town’s most famous sight. We’ll ride in revolving cable cars which allows one to take in the lovely panorama on the way up and down. The view from the top is wonderful – we’ll see tiny Robben Island, the majestic cliffs of the Twelve Apostles, the Cape Town cityscape and the rugged coast below.

• After breakfast, weather permitting, take a cable car ride up iconic Table Mountain. A nature reserve floating above the city's heart. Table Mountain is Cape Town's most famous sight, We'll ride in revolving cable cars, which allows one to take in the lovely panorama on the way up and down. The view from the top is wonderful - we'll see tiny Robben Island, the majestic cliffs of the Twelve Apostles, the Cape Town cityscape and the rugged coast below. 
• Head to the office of the Monkeybiz Bead Project ,which began in 1999 as a shared vision to regenerate the indigenous art of beadwork, while creating employment opportunities for women in the most under-resourced areas of the Western Cape. The Monkeybiz Bead Project also supports a Wellness Center, which provides healthcare, nutrition and yoga classes for bead artists living with HIV. Their whimsical and colorful beaded creatures will enchant you!
• Drive about 40 minutes to Stellenbosch and the Delheim Winery to meet Ntsiki Biyela for lunch and wine tasting. Ntsiki, is South Africa first black women winemaker.
• Tonight dinner is at leisure.

• Fly to Johannrsburg this morning. Upon arrival, drive to the serenely beautiful Satyagraha House, home to Mahatma Gandhi from 1908 to 1909. Enjoy lunch her and afterwards tour the on-site museum. 
• Visit Constitution Hill, site of the Old Fort Prison, now a museum, where political prisoners including Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi had once been held. The complex of buildings on the hill collectively came to represent, above all other things, human indignity, suffering and sheer inhumanity. Over the last few years, these buildings have been open to the public as a way of educating and providing perspective. The new Constitutional Court, an architectural masterpiece, is home to a fine collection of art. Meeting us is Nolubabalo Memese, a judiciary legislation expert.
• Later meet Steven Friedman, a South African academic, newspaper columnist and former trade unionist. He directs the Centre for the Study of Democracy, a joint project by Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg. His book Building Tomorrow Today: African Workers in Trade Unions 1970-1984 has been described as a classic South African text.
• Drive to the Johannesburg Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch for check-in.
• Enjoy dinner this evening at Istanbul Kebab, a short walk away from the hotel. 

• This morning visit the Gallery Momo, which specializes in contemporary art and is one of the few galleries owned by a black African. 
• Stop at the Origins Center for a guided tour. The museum offers a unique experience tracing Africa's rich, complect and sometimes mysterious past. 
• Afterwards visit the Apartheid Museum, considered to be the pre- eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story. Lunch at the museum's lovely Truth Restaurant, before time to explore this superb museum. 
• Return to the hotel and enjoy dinner at leisure.

• This morning visit Soweto, which from its genesis, was a product segregationist planning created to house mainly black laborers who worked in mines and other industries in the city, away from the city center. Soweto has been a hotbed of many political campaigns. Accompanying the group will be guide Tefo Legobate.
• Enjoy a wonderful lunch at the Sakhumzi Restaurant and later continue to explore Soweto. Visit places such as the former men’s hostel in Mzhimhlope and learn about the history of mine workers and the conditions they lived in. Continue walking to the Hector Pieterson Memorial site and learn about the Student’s Uprisings on 16 June 1976.
• Dinner tonight is at leisure. 

• This morning, take a flight to a small airport in Hoedspruit. Upon arrival drive about 45 minutes to Karongwe River Lodge (or similar).
• Karongwe River Lodge located in the Karongwe Reserve. The private reserve with thousands of hectacres is home to an abundance of species from numerous mammals including the “Big Five.”
• The lodge provides enchanting views of the Makhutsi River and endless opportunities to view elephant, as well as grazing antelope.
• Meet for a tea and light refreshments.
• Depart on a late-afternoon safari stopping en route for sundowners (happy hour!).
• Enjoy dinner this evening at the lodge.

• This full day will be spent enjoying two game drives and a game walk. it will include an early morning wake up call, tea/coffee, a 3 hour open vehicle safari, breakfast, an optional game walk, leisure time and swim, lunch, afternoon siesta and afternoon tea, a 3 hour open vehicle afternoon-into-night safari, and a divine dinner.
• Karongwe River Lodge is committed to working with the local community regarding awareness of conservation. Pending availability, hear from teh Rhino protection team. South Africa holds the majority of the world's rhinos and has been the country hit hardest by poachers, with more than 1,000 rhino killed each year between 2013 and 2017.
• Later enjoy a final afternoon-into-night safari, and a celebratory farewell dinner.

• Early morning excursion followed by breakfast. Balance of morning at leisure. After lunch return by air to Johannesburg for international flights home.

Scheduled events, speakers and their timings are subject to change based on availability.