Sub-Saharan Africa
Southern Africa
Namib Desert,
Skeleton Coast
Skeleton Coast &
Kalihari Desert
Kalahari
Swakomund, Namibia,
Bismarck Strasse
Guess who lives here:
The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert
Mugabe, in Harare. The people of
Zimbabwe are starving while the world
stands by and watches, including South
Africa, their closest neighbor.
Mugabe on YouTube
Political Cartoon drawn 6/25/08, two days before the undisputed runoff between
Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, who has dropped out and sought refuge in the
Dutch Embassy in Harare.
Alarmingly, Mugabe was named as the new head of the
Transcontinental African Union in 2015. One wonders how and
why?
Great Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean
Sculpture Exhibit,
Atlanta Airport
Okavango Swamp, Botswana, Hippos
Victoria Falls
Okavango
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River
Mozambique flooding
Gapminder Link
Table Mountain, Cape Town
Robben
Island
Cape Town
Robben Island, 1970s
Drakensburg Mountains, South Africa
South African High Veld, 1986
Voortrekker Monument, Transvaal
Dutch Architecture, Natal
Kimberly Diamond Mine
Stellenbosch Vineyards, Cape Town
Johannesburg
Apartheid
South African Apartheid, 1948-1994
Sharpeville, SA Massacre, March 21, 1960
69 unarmed protesters against the “pass” laws killed
Soweto Uprising, 1976
School Children boycotted the schools in protest against being forced to learn
everything in Afrikaans, a ticket to nowhere. Hundreds killed by police.
Mohandas K. Gandhi in South Africa, 1895 and India, 1931
Apartheid Cape Town, 1986
SOWETO
Johannesburg, 1986
Kwazulu Market
Durban, Natal
Apartheid-era “Independent & Self-governing” Homelands
Natal
Pieter Willem Botha
(January 12, 1916 – October 31, 2006), commonly known as "PW" and
Die Groot Krokodil (Afrikaans for "The Big Crocodile"), was the prime
minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state
president from 1984 to 1989. Botha was a long-time leader of South
Africa's National Party and a staunch advocate of racial segregation
and the apartheid system. While in power he made some small
concessions towards human rights, but he always refused to apologise
for apartheid. He refused to testify at the new government's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission and was fined and given a suspended jail
sentence for his refusal to testify in relation to human rights violations.
He was not related to contemporary National Party politician Roelof
Frederik "Pik" Botha, who served as his foreign minister.
Frederik Willem de Klerk
March 18, 1936) was the last State President of Apartheid-era South
Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. De Klerk was also
leader of the National Party (which later became the New National
Party) from February 1989 to September 1997.
De Klerk is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South
Africa's racial segregation policy, and supporting the transformation
of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the
negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black
majority, having equal voting and other rights. He shared the Nobel
Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 for his role in the ending of
apartheid.
He was the Deputy President of South Africa during the presidency of
Nelson Mandela until 1996. In 1997, he retired from politics.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 7/18/1918- 12/5/2013
Mandela & Sisulu, Robben Island
ANC, 46664, Ubuntu
Free after 27 years, 2/11/1994
The Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela’s
autobiography
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First Mandela interview 1961
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Mandela speaks on tolerance
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On Ubuntu
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Apartheid on YouTube
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Nelson Mandela sings about killing whites
on YouTube ~ 2000
Apartheid, 1986
Grannies against Poverty & AIDS, Khayelitsha
Township, Cape Flats