Inner-city Joburg tours with local guides
We’ve run tours from Ponte City since 2012. Local guides lead every one, and your ticket pays for after-school programmes for the kids who live in and around the building.
Our impact
Our tours in numbers
Want the story behind the numbers? Read the Dlala Nje annual report 2025.
Why Dlala Nje
A tour that gives back
Local guides
Your guides live in the neighbourhoods they show you, and the stories are their own.
Every tour funds the Foundation
Your ticket helps pay for homework help, reading and dance classes at the Foundation's two community centres.
Based at Ponte City
We opened in Ponte City, Berea, in October 2012, and we've been here ever since.
Tours from Ponte City
Go inside Ponte City on the Ponte Tower Experience, walk Hillbrow with a local guide, eat your way through Yeoville or see Soweto with a local. Then end the day with sunset drinks on the 51st floor.
Featured tour
The Ultimate Joburg Full-Day Tour
One day, one local guide: Constitution Hill, Ponte City, Maboneng, the Apartheid Museum and Soweto, with lunch, entry fees and pickup included.
Reviews
What our guests say
Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 250+ Google reviews.
- Hannah Brown
Rated 5 out of 5
I learnt so much about Johannesburg and the Ponte Tower views, both from the top and bottom are amazing. Kea was my guide and was just so lovely and knowledgeable! Would highly recommend… I might even go back next week to take a friend 🙂
- Patthechooks
Rated 5 out of 5
Lasting and powerful impressions
… The tour takes you almost to the top of the building, and deep into the core where you stand on the bedrock. Kea, my guide, was informed, charming, and interesting to talk to. The views external and internal are unforgettable. …
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- Max
Rated 5 out of 5
Mbongiseni and Lindelwa took us on the This is Hillbrow walkabout. They are knowledgeable about the area and have a genuine interest for the children. …
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Our Foundation
Your ticket helps run two kids' centres
The Dlala Nje Foundation runs two community centres in Ponte City, one for kids aged 4 to 11 and one for teenagers. In 2025 it registered 250 children, up from 80 in 2024. T-shirts and donations help too.
- Homework help and reading time after school
- Pantsula, coding and sewing classes
- Outings, clubs and a Christmas party
Give your time
Help at our kids’ centres in Ponte City: homework, activities, events or a skill of your own. Tell us how you’d like to help, and we’ll find the right fit.
T-shirts, art and gifts
Sketches of Joburg landmarks, Shweshwe bags, T-shirts and homeware.
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