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Apartheid in South Africa Apartheid was the perfect form of racism. It took centuries to develop, staring all the ay back in 1652 when the Dutch East India Company landed at the Cape of Good Hope and established a trading colony, Kaapstad, later known as Cape Town, a rest stop for ships traveling between Europe and India. To impose white rule, the Dutch colonists went to war with all the natives, ultimately developing a set of laws to subjugate and enslave them. When the British took over the Cape colony, the decendants of original Dutch settlers trekked inland and developed their own language, culture and customs, eventually becoming their own people, the Afrikaners - tha white tribe in Southern Africa. The British abolished slavery in nam but kept in practice. They did so because, in the mid 1800s, in what had ben written off as a near-worthless way station on the trad route to the Far East, a few lucky capitalists stumbled upon the richest gold and diamond reserves in th world,...

Ba MaSotho ba loya The Basotho are a Bantu ethnic group whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century. The Basotho nation emerged from the accomplished diplomacy of Moshoeshoe I who gathered together disparate clans of Sotho–Tswana origin that had dispersed across southern Africa in the early 19th century. Most Basotho today live in South Africa, as the area of the Orange Free State was originally part of Moshoeshoe's nation (now Lesotho ). Sesotho is the same as Spedi, I don't understand why they call themselves different (even the language is the same). Anyways Early Sotho origins and history is largely unknown, but Ironworkers, who were probably Sotho-speakers, were at Phalaborwa from the eighth century and at Melville Koppies in the Johannesburg area from the eleventh century. Oral tradition has it that the founding lineage knew the art of smelting and ancient ritual dances are associated with it. Archaeologists have ...

Khosians In SA The Khoisan, an indigenous population in Namibia, may once have comprised the majority of living humans on the planet, for much of the past 150,000 years. The Khoisan population declined about 22,000 years ago and again during the 17th century's European colonialists' incursions into Africa. The new study by geneticists published in Nature Communications , reviewed by the journal Science, revealed that the Khoisan, now numbering about 100,000, are a genetically diverse group because of a large ancestral population in the distant past.   The name ‘Khoisan’ generally refers to the hunters and herders of a number of ethnic groups that speak a distinctive click language, although it is not the name that the population use for themselves. Historically, there were two groups of peoples in the Khoisan language family, the Khoi Khoi pastoralists or herders, and the San, who were hunters and gatherers. Today, they are known collectively as the Khoisan. Khoisan...

Goerge's Letter to Madiba Dear Former President Nelson Mandela, I was only about 5 years old when were released from prison. I come from a poor background as a black child and I was raised by my grandmother. In 1994 South Africa had its first democratic elections; I remember people around me including my grandma were excited to vote for you and the ANC government. Sadly my grandma passed away before she could vote in beginning of April in 1994. I understand that you had meetings between 1985-1990 with P. W. Botha to have a negotiated settlement. Revered late ANC President, Oliver Reginald Tambo, referring to your meetings with the colonial-apartheid regime in the crucial 1980s, said “ Prisoners can’t negotiate their freedom”. I have read that according to aged ANC veterans, Tambo seemed disturbed about senior members of the leadership including you, who could have compromised the organisation. He seemed to question whom to trust. This, according to those vetera...

Fees Must Fall Goerge?? This topic that I'd like to raise is one that is in many South Africa's mind. This topic is the one and only, Fees must fall. The fees must fall march seemed to of grabbed many South Africans attention. Well in 2016 and 2015 South Africa encountered one of its biggest march in the country. This march grabbed South Africa's attention because it wasn't a regular "hey, pay me more money" type of march, but this was a march like no other. This was given the reason because it was a march held by South Africa's youth. South Africa's youth had a march on for the fact universities were increasing tuition fees by 8% for all university courses within SA. The youth were angry at that point and began to march to sop the increase of fees and this march was called the fees must all march. Students from all government universities were marching for the stop of the increasing of fees. To be specific the only students that took part in ...

Tswana's In SA The Tswana ( Tswana : Batswana , singular Motswana ) are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group who are native to Southern Africa . They are, though, heavily influenced by various Khoisan peoples, with Khoisan people being absorbed into the populations of, particularly western, Tswanas. The Tswana language belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger–Congo languages . Ethnic Tswana made up approximately 79% of the population of Botswana in 2011 The first pottery in South Africa associated with the Sotho is called  Icon  and dates to between 1300 and 1500. As with the Nguni, anthropological and linguistic data suggest an East African origin for Sotho-Tswana speakers, in this case in what is now Tanzania. By 1500 the Sotho groups had expanded to the south and west and separated into the three distinct clusters; the South Sotho (later became the Basuto and Sotho), the West Sotho (later the Tswana), and the North Sotho (later the Pedi). It is important to note...

Taxi's in SA This is going tot be one weird article but today I would like to discuss the taxi's that are in South Africa. They are practically the rulers of the road, but not a lot of South Africans knows how it's runned. Well let's start small. With the discussion to what they all about. The local taxi's organization breaks off into quiet a few branches, but generally it's controlled by one big organization. There are small business. Small Business is what local calls taxi's that are practically old Toyota corolla and old golf citi. They mainly are situated in local townships. They accommodate for only a specific group, and that's the township. Small business cars mainly requires one passenger to sit in the front and three squished passengers to sit at the back. I personally try get taxis where the front seat is available. The small business works distinctively within township and doesn't travel any further. There are the "c...

Short story on Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe ( / z ɪ m ˈ b ɑː b w eɪ / ), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in southern Africa , between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers . It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west and southwest, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east and northeast. Although it does not border Namibia , less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River separates it from that country. The capital and largest city is Harare . A country of roughly 16 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages , with English , Shona , and Ndebele the most commonly used. Throughout the centuries, Southern Africa was also inhabited by people with a different life style. The San (Bushmen) people did not live in cities or villages, nor did they cultivate the fields or keep domesticated animals. They were hunters and fruits gatherers. Their history is immortalized on thousands of rock paintings, some of which...

San's in SA The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as 'Bushmen', a term used by the European Colonists that is now considered derogatory. The San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. The San and the Khoekhoe peoples are aboriginal to southern Africa. This means the San and Khoekhoe are descendants of the first people who ever lived here, before black or white people migrated into the region. Archaeologists tend to agree that the San are the descendants of the original Homo sapiens (modern day man) who occupied South Africa for at least 150 000 years. Geneticists say that the oldest gene pattern amongst modern humans is that of the Khoe-San. It dates back to about 80 000 years ago. All other peoples on the planet, Europeans, Black Africans, Asian...

Swazi in SA Mostly residing on Swaziland and South Africa, it is the way of life and practiced customs by the Swazi people through various historical stages. Speakers of the Nguni SiSwati language, it is composed of various clans who have the language in common. Religion, food, architecture, music, kinship are among many cultural practices of this people. The traditional political structure of Swaziland is one of the most visible features of the Swazi people as a nation.  he Swazi nation, as we know it today, originally came from Mozambique. Their Nguni ancestors probably moved there before the sixteenth century as part of the Bantu migration. Archaeologists have found human remains in eastern Swaziland that have been dated to be 110 000 years old, but these were not the ancestors of the Swazi. The Swazi fled from their original home to the Pongola River valley in KwaZulu Natal in the nineteenth century as a result of internal pressure. Ndwandwe attacks later fo...