Themba in Sisulu Square

Our guide Themba. In the background is a monument on the location where the ANC wrote the Freedom Charter in 1956. The monument was constructed in 2006 to acknowledge that the new South African constitution was based on this document.

Apartheid

July 27th 2010
We arrived in Johannesburg on Sunday morning. We spent Sunday getting acclimated then on Monday we took a tour to some interesting fossil beds called “The Cradle of Humankind.” The best part of the tour, however, was the stories told by our tour guide Themba. He started out by taking the time during the drive to tell us about the end of Apartheid from his p ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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