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Cyril short story He is a revolutionary man. I appreciate his contribution to South Africa's history. http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cyril-matamela-ramaphosa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa was born in  Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children of Erdmuth and Samuel Ramaphosa, a retired policeman. He grew up in the South Western Native Township (Soweto), attending a local primary school and Sekano-Ntoane High School, Soweto. In 1971 he matriculated from Mphaphuli High School in Sibasa,  Limpopo . In 1972 he registered at the University of the North (Turfloop) for a BProc degree. He became involved in students politics and joined the  South African Students Organization ( SASO )  in 1972. In 1974 he served as the chairman of the branch. In the same year, he was chairman of the Student Christian Movement. After the pro-Frelimo rally at the University in 1974, Ramaphosa was detained for 11 months under section 6...

Chinese people in South Africa Chinese South Africans ( simplified Chinese : 华裔南非人;  traditional Chinese : 華裔南非人) are  overseas Chinese  who reside in  South Africa , including those whose ancestors came to South Africa in the early 20th century until Chinese immigration was banned under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1904, [2]  Taiwanese industrialists who arrived in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and post- apartheid  immigrants to South Africa (predominantly from mainland China), who now outnumber locally-born Chinese South Africans. Some history between them. Despite being a tiny minority in the country for most of its history, Chinese immigrants have been part of South Africa’s cultural heritage since the first colonists settled in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Maybe even further back than that. According to Melanie Yap and Daniel Leong Man, in their book...

vendas in south africa The  Venda  (Vhavenda or Vhangona) are a Southern African people living mostly near the South African- Zimbabwean border. The  bantustan  of  Venda  was created to become a homeland for the Venda people. The Venda people, like their  Tsonga  neighbours, are South Africa's minority groups, they currently number 700 000 speakers in  Limpopo Province , while the Tsonga at their doorsteps number 900 000 people, also in Limpopo province. Some history about the Venda's From 800AD, the Mapungubwe Kingdom emerged, stretching from the Soutpansberg in the south, across the Limpopo River to the Matopos in the north.  The Mapungubwe Kingdom declined from 1240 , and the centre of power and trade moved north to the Great Zimbabwe Kingdom. A shifting of focus to Zimbabwe's Khami and Rozwi empires followed, but the culture did not come to a standstill. South of the Limpopo Shona-Venda and Venda pottery styles developed in the 14th...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICA By Tim Lambert ANCIENT AFRICA Scientists believe that Africa was the birthplace of mankind. By 100,000 BC modern humans lived by hunting and gathering with stone tools. From Africa they spread to Europe. By 5,000 farming had spread to North Africa. People herded cattle and they grew crops. At that time the Sahara Desert was not a desert. It was a green and fertile area. Gradually it grew drier and became a desert. Meanwhile about 3,200 BC writing was invented in Egypt. The Egyptians made tools and weapons of bronze. However by the time Egyptian civilization arose most of Africa was cut off from Egypt and other early civilizations by the Sahara Desert. Sub-Saharan Africa was also hampered by its lack of good harbors, which made transport by sea difficult. Farmers in Africa continued to use stone tools and weapons however about 600 BC the use of iron spread in North Africa. It gradually spread south and by 500 AD iron tools and weapons had reached what is ...

Mozambique is a southern African nation whose long Indian Ocean coastline is dotted with popular beaches like Tofo, as well as offshore marine parks. In the Quirimbas Archipelago, a 250km stretch of coral islands, mangrove-covered Ibo Island has colonial-era ruins surviving from a period of Portuguese rule. The Bazaruto Archipelago farther south has reefs which protect rare marine life including dugongs. After 100 AD Bantu speaking people arrived in what is now Mozambique. They lived by farming and they made iron tools. They were organised into small kingdoms. By the 9th century Arab merchants arrived at the coast of Mozambique. For centuries afterwards there was trade between Africans and Arabs. Then in 1498 the Portuguese sailor Vasco Da Gama landed at Ilha de Mocambique on his way to India. In 1511 A Portuguese called Antonio Fernandes explored the inland of Mozambique. During the 16th century the Portuguese established trading posts along the coast of Mozambique. They also took ...

Mugabe Bravery (Zim story) For a while my interested has shifted to Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is just north of South Africa (one of it’s neighbors). My interest has been enlarged because of President Robert Mugabe, who is the only president in Africa trying to stop white power in Africa. White supremacy started in Zimbabwe with Mr. Rhodes and later the country was named Rhodesia. Whites found renaming African things very essential. Renaming gave the Africans a feeling of being ruled and it was a way of westernizing Africa. Names give us a reference of time and culture which the whites found essential to erase. The success story of Zimbabwean people taking down Mr. Rhodes and killing him for their freedom is one happy story. Though like many European colonized country lost, they never gave up sight of the power. They lost the battle, but did Britain loose the war (did Britain loose Zimbabwe at the time). Well Europeans later learnt that they don’t even need to actually be pres...

Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. This was the period in which both the  ANC  and the  PAC had been officially banned and the disenfranchised Black population (especially the youth) were highly receptive to the prospect of a new organisation that could carry their grievances against the Apartheid state. Thus it was that Biko’s  Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)  came to prominence and although Biko was not its only leader, he was its most recognisable figure. It was Biko, along with others who guided the movement of student discontent into a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments that emerged in the high phase of Apartheid, when the  Nationalist Party (NP) , in power for almost two decades, was restructuring the country to conform to its policies of separate devel...

Miss Beautiful Well in the world almost all the country participates in the Miss Universe. These are beauty contests really, the most beautiful women in the whole world is announced as Miss Universe. Sadly you can only be Miss Universe for one time of your life and that’s a year. There’s Miss City, then promotion to Miss Province, then promoted to Miss Country and later the Universe. Wait, Is there a Miss World? So we literally skip poor old planet earth, poor old solar system, poor old galaxy (Milky Way) and jump to Mr Universe. The first problem I have with this contest. Well why it is named Miss Universe? I mean we haven’t been able to visit Pluto yet, how can we even conclude that the winner is might as well the prettiest in the Universe. Like what if Pluto has some radical babes or planet XXX? My most big complaint is who in the world has the audacity and privilege to name someone the prettiest lady in the world. That this individual “knows” what every guy is into...

Having money can also be blinding. I mean when you go to KFC, and you have R100 and a sandwich is R30 and R10 for cold drink. Now you buy those named products. I don’t know if it’s just me, but Chicken Liken taste the same as KFC (and remarkably cheaper). Why not buy at Chicken Liken to have more change from the R100? Restaurants do one of the best mind games and personally I call it the “The Cold drink scuffle”. You buy a 300ml of coke at KFC, but it finished fast? You’ve been robbed. That wasn’t 300ml of coke, but only 25% of coke and the rest is melted water or ice. Why? “I didn’t order ice though!” No one does and they bring it you anyways, why would you complain about ice on a hot day? On a date? With your kids? You won’t. Remember Physics, there something called Buoyancy’s force and restaurants use that for all their cold drinks. It simply says when you put an object in the water, the water level rises. Certain ...