Happy St Patrick's Day to those at home, our version of celebrating St Pattys day took the form of a student protest that shut down the campus! It was a very large, lively, exciting and (most importantly) peaceful protest. The issue was the same as last time- the administration has still not helped students get their promised housing and this time the strike was successful at causing enough ruckus to bring the intended attention on themselves. I got some great shots from in front, behind, above, and within the crowd, the best of them are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mpruce/StudentStrikeAtUKZN But this post is about a field trip that I went on last week with my ceramics class to the Mgwaze clan homestead, about 3 hours outside of Pietermaritzburg. The Clan is the subdivision of tribe, which is
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