In the wake of the 1976 Soweto uprising , Harry Frederick Oppenheimer and Afrikaner business tycoon Anton Rupert held a conference at the Carlton on November 29-30 , 1976 to discuss urban renewal and the building of a black middle class in the country to protect the existing system . The Urban Foundation was founded as a result . On December 7 , 1977 , an anti-apartheid activist bombed a restaurant in the Carlton Centre , adjacent to the hotel , injuring several people and blowing off his own right hand
Soweto uprising
Soweto uprising
Carlton Hotel (Johannesburg)