History: South Africa was colonised by the British and Dutch and the people suffered massively during Apartheid which came to an end when Nelson Mandela was releases from prison in 1990 and became the first democratically elected leader in South Africa in 1994. President: Cyril Ramaphosa South Afr...
Africa is home to 55 countries, an ancient and complex history, modern cities, some 3,000 languages and over a billion people. From Algeria to Zimbabwe, here’s a snapshot of each country on a continent you need to know more about.
11.History:Evidence of human life in South America dates back to 10,000 BC. One of the earliest South American civilisations are recorded inPeru. South America was colonised from the late 15th century by foreignconquistadores(explorers) who came mainly from Spain and Portugal, but also from the...
part of the broad and branching Niger-Congo family of languages. The languages arrived here during the great expansion of Bantu-speaking people from West Africa eastwards and southwards into the rest of the continent. The expansion began in around 3,000 BCE and was largely complete by...
Colonised bodies: overcoming gender constructions of bodies in dance and movement education in South Africa. South African Teachers' Journal , 9(2), 51-59.Loots L (1995) ``Colonised bodies: overcoming gen- der constructions of bodies in dance and move- ment education in South Africa', in ...
Figure 2. Typical Savanna area of the Molopo region in the semi-arid parts of the Northern Cape and North West Provinces in Southern Africa, where the study was conducted. The Molopo receives erratic summer rainfall ranging between 250 and 400 mm per annum [45,46,47,48,49] interspersed ...
The Global North nations have colonised the atmospheric commons for their own enrichment through forms of industrialisation and growth that have relied on colonial patterns of appropriation.88 Across all countries, responsibility lies primarily with the affluent and ruling classes, due to their high ...
A genocidal war of annihila-tion such as that waged in South West Africa by Imperial Germany, however,sought to eliminate the colonised Other. It represents one of the most extremeforms of inequality in domination relationships to be found anywhere in history.It is important, not least to ...
This review provides the first assessment of animal species that are native to South Africa and invasive elsewhere in the world. While around a twelfth of all naturalised plants in the world are native to South Africa, there are very few examples of Sout
Seeing that the youth of South Africa will inherit the country, it makes sense that they take charge of moving South Africa into the future. Furthermore, the youth of South Africa have a history of being at the helm of revolutionary change and June 16 is a testament to that as an annual...