THE GUMBOOT DANCE

The gumboot dance is an African dance that is performed by dancers wearing wellington boots. This is called the Gumboots dance, the dance began in the gold mine South Africa.

The mine workers were not free to move around at will and were separated from their families for long periods of time. At best, working in the mines was a long, hard, repetitive toil,\. At worst, the men would be taken chained into the mines and shackled at their work stations in almost total darkness.

The workers were forbidden to speak, and as a result create a means of communication, essentially their own unique form of Morse code

Gumboot dancing has developed into a working class. South African art form with a Universal appeal. The dancers expand upon traditional steps. With the addition of contemporary movement. Music and song. Extremely physical, the dancing serves as a cathartic release, celebrating the body as an instrument, and the richness and complexities of South African culture. 

FACTS ABOUT AGRICULTURE

Agriculture plays an important role for South African economy.
Cereals and grains are South African's most important crops, occupying more than 60 percent of hectare under cultivation in the 1990's. Maize, the country's most important crop, is a dietary staple, a source of livestock feed, and an export crop. 

The largest export groups are wine, citrus, maize, grapes, sugar, apples, pears and quinces. Other important export products are undermatured ethyl alcohol, avocados, pineapples  date preserved fruit and nuts, as well as hides and skins.

Primary agriculture contributes about 3% to South African's gross domestic product (GDP) and about 7% to formal employment. 
However, there are strong linkages into the economy, so that the agro-industrial sector comprises about 12% of GDP. 

For the past five years, agricultural exports have contributed on average about 6,5 % of total South African exports increased from 5 % (1988) to 46% (2009) of agricultural 

CLEAN COUNTRY

THE NAME IS :    THANDANANI CLEANING PROJECT IS

A clean up campaign is getting bigger and bigger the motive is clean up our environment, but they will need all the help they can get. They need more people volunteering and more donations. They need trucks, garbage removal equipment 

for the project to be successful.

HOW TO KEEP CLEAN THE ENVIRONMENT

The Thandanani cleaning project mission: s Pretoria residents living in a healthy environment, but the community members do not want to work together and they continue creating illegal dumping sites” said the leader of the Thandanani cleaning project 

They are no planning to start a door to door campaign whereby they will educate households about the hazards of illegal dumping sites within our community. The problem is that residents do not want to wait for the municipality to come and collect the waste.

Member of the community are making their job difficult and it seems that they forget     

SHAKA OF THE ZULU

Shaka was the first son of  Senzangakhona and Nandi he grew up at his mother’s place
also known as Shaka zulu was in the year 1787 in Kwazulu-Natal, 
assassinated: 1828 September 22
Dingane and Mhlangana, Shaka's half-brothers, appear to have made at least two attempts to assassinate Shaka before they succeeded, He was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom

Dingiswayo's death

According to the diary of Henry Francis Fynn, Dingiswayo's death (c.1818) was the result of Shaka's treachery, though firm testimony of this is lacking. However, it is known that when Dingiswayo fought his last battle, Shaka did not arrive at the scene until after his overlord's capture. He thus retained his forces intact. Zwide later murdered Dingiswayo, and, when the leaderless Mthethwa state collapsed, Shaka immediately assumed leadership and began conquering surrounding chiefdoms himself, adding their forces to his own and building up a new kingdom.

WHAT RIGHTS DO CHILDREN HAVE

Child has the right to a safe place to live, food, clean water, clothes, time to play, the right to not be abused or mistreated
A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child..

Economic, social and cultural rights, related to the conditions necessary to meet basic human needs such as food, shelter, education, health care, and gainful employment. Included are rights to education, adequate housing, food, water, the highest attainable standard of health, the right to work and rights at work, as well as the cultural rights of minorities and indigenous peoples.


Environmental, cultural and developmental rights, which are sometimes called "third generation rights," and including the right to live in safe and healthy environments and that groups of people have the right to cultural, political, and economic development.


Protection: Children have the right to protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination.

Provision: Children have the right to an adequate standard of living, health care, education and services, and to play and recreation.

Participation: Children have the right to participate in communities and have programs and services for themselves.

JACARANDAS IN PRETORIA

The Jacaranda tree is originally from South America.
Pretoria is one of the places that has a lot of Jacaranda trees. All the main streets of Pretoria especially the Central Business District has got Jacaranda trees  
In the older sections of town, such as Brooklyn, Jacarandas line the streets of entire neighborhoods, They usually blossom around August, September and October, the flowers of the trees will turn purple during this time, almost the whole city turns purple, You will Pretoria during this time.

In History 

The word jacaranda was described in A supplement to Mr. Chambers’s Cyclopaedia, 1st edition (1753) as “a name given by some authors to the tree the wood of which is the log-wood, used in dying and in medicine” and as being of Tupi-Guarani origin, by way of Portuguese.