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South Africa
"Never, never again
will this beautiful land experience the oppression of
one by another"
Nelson Mandela
History and geography
Culture
Resources for teachers on the web
Resources on
the Paris site
Two lead-in activities: a
cartoon and a musical
brainstorming
An interactive exercise
on the song by Johnny Clegg & Savuka, Asimbonanga
An activity about a portrait
of Nelson Mandela
A Treasure
Hunt for collège students
An online crossword puzzle
about South Africa
History
and geography 
A timeline
of South Africa
A map
of South Africa
South Africa on  Wikipedia,
history and geography
Time
Magazine covers on South Africa
The BBC
country
profile about South Africa
11 languages are officially spoken in South Africa. To
know more,
:: click here ::
The National
anthem in different languages
Read about the symbols
of South Africa
Holidays and celebrations in
South Africa
- April 27th is Freedom Day. Read
about the celebrations
of Freedom Day in 2004. Photographs about the celebrations
on the BBC site
- June 16th is Youth
Day. Known as Soweto Day until just a few years
ago, Youth Day in South Africa was originally created
to remember the Soweto Uprisings, the massive educational
protests by students in 1970's. Read about June 16th,
1976 on BBC
News.
Different aspects of South Africa can be discovered through
these
photos by Scott L. Robertson
Apartheid
History
of the Apartheid system on
Wikipedia
Don't miss the Apartheid
Museum and its resources
for teachers.
On the UN
 HUMAN
RIGHTS site, see the Historical images of Apartheid
in South Africa
The student
uprisings of 1976 on CNN,
also known as the Soweto uprisings including photos
More about Soweto
Great South
African men
Nelson Mandela 
Four Time Magazine covers featuring
Nelson Mandela : February
5th, 1990, July
2nd, 1990, January
3rd 1994, May
9th 1994.
A profile of Nelson Mandela on BBC
news
Steve Biko 
A biography
of Steve Biko on About.com
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, 
president of South Africa and
president of the ANC
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates 
South African
cities and townships
National Parks
A list of South African National
Parks
Economy
South African economy
Diamonds, South Africa's best friend.
Gold
and diamonds
Currency
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The South African currency is the ZAR
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1.00
ZAR
= 0.125332 EUR |
1.00
EUR Euro = 7.99116 ZAR
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Culture
Nobel Prize for Literature Laureates
1991 Nadine Gordimer
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee
Writers and poets
Well-known singers
Have a look at 
guide to South African music, and listen to some of the
programmes.
A site dedicated to South
African Rock'n Roll music
Famous songs
Films
Amandla! A Revolution In Four Part Harmony (2003).
Amandla:
"Through a chronological history of the South African
liberation struggle, this documentary cites examples
of the way that music was used in the fight for freedom"
A
dry white season, with Donald Sutherland,
Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon.
The movie script ::
here ::
Cry
Freedom
USA (1987)
Denzel Washington portrays the South African activist
Steven Biko in this movie directed by Richard Attenborough.
Filmed on location in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
A World Apart, a film by Chris Menges. "Apartheid
threatens to tear her from her 13-year-old daughter
when the first white woman - a journalist - is arrested
and put in solitary in 1963 for defying the South African
government".
Cooking
South African recipes
Teaching resources
Pictures
Time
Magazine covers on South Africa
A gallery of interesting
photos
Webquests, Treasure Hunts,
quizzes
Don't miss the Time
for Kids page on the subject of South Africa, with
a quiz
A rather difficult but interesting webquest
on Apartheid
A history
course on Apartheid
An activity about the South
African Flag on EnchantedLearning
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