South Africa

South Africa

South Africa is named the rainbow nation because of her diversity of languages: eleven official languages but also for her diversity of population: African people, white people, colored people but also Indian people. There is three capital: an administrative capital (Pretoria), a legislative capital (Cape-town) and a judicial capital (Bloemfontein).

Kwazulu-Natal: sunshine

Eastern cape: birthplace of nelson Mandela

Limpopo: big animal reserve

Western cape: most high bridge

Part 1

The first region is the Kwazulu-Natal where live the zoulou people. There it’s possible to see the Drakensberg Escarpment. This region is composed of beaches, forest, cities, hills, sea, mountains.

Part 2

The second region, the eastern cape, is the birthplace of a famous person: Nelson Mandela. It’s a spectacular and natural region. It’s possible to see Storms river mouth, the valley of desolation and the Baviaanskloof Wilderness. There it’s possible to do bungee jump and big rush. That’s why the Eastern cape is an incredible playground.

Part 3

The thirst region is the Limpopo. It contains an enormous reserve, bigger than wales in the United Kingdom. It contains magnificent animal like (elephants, rhinos, leopards, zebra, lions and many others).

Part 4

In the Western Cape it’s possible to visit Table mountains from where it’s possible to see The Robben Island and Cape Town, the main city and also the legislative capital of South Africa.

Lara: please present yourself

Vincent: hello I’m Dumi and I’m with my sister

Stanislas: hey I’m Grace and we were at the demonstration

L: can you tell why you where there and also what are you fighting for

S: We were protesting because of the apartheid

V: We want more rights, we want the equality, BLACKS ARE NOT DUSTBIN

L: How the police react to your

What happened on the streets of Johannesburg? Demonstration by hundreds of children to denounce the apartheid

What were the crowds doing? Protesting for their rights and to protest against the government’s decision to teach them in Afrikaans

What was the response of the police? They started to shoot and to arrest a lot of children when they saw all the schoolchildren in the street.

What were the police officers like? they aggressive/ pitiless in the way they crushed the riot

How did the civilians react? They started to burn some buildings and they kept on fighting

On top of the hundreds who were killed, hundred more were injured and arrested

Among those who chose the rebel, Dumi was arrested and imprisoned

What have the journalists witnessed today? One of the most inhuman episode of the history of South Africa.

Summary:

The apartheid was a system of legal racial separation in the republic of Africa from 1948 to the 1990s. Apartheid means separate.

One of the languages were the Afrikaans, it was talking by the white people and the people of Dutch origins.

Black people lived in in rural areas and townships and White people lived in the big cities (segregated places). They had different jobs, different level of paid, education.

Black people needed a pass to travel out of their homeland. Without this pass, they were arrested.

Soweto is a group of townships located in the west of Johannesburg which became sadly famous during a student protest in June 1976.

Children protested to learn in Afrikaans and not in English, many of them were arrested, injured or killed.

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