Travel Document Systems
Tds: South Africa: Geography
A graphic showing the various aspects of the physical environment of South Africa including its climate, terrain, and natural resources. information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Learn About South Africa [Pdf]
"Learn about South Africa" is a one page, nonfiction passage about South Africa and its fight to end the apartheid. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most...
CRW Flags
Flags of the World: South Africa
This site gives a large flag of South Africa with an explanation of the meaning of the flag. Links are provided for additional information.
Ducksters
Ducksters: South Africa History and Timeline Overview
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the country of South Africa including early tribes, Dutch settlers, British rule, Boer Wars, apartheid, and Nelson Mandela.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Robert F. Kennedy: Day of Affirmation at Cape Town University
This is the audio mp3 and text of Robert F. Kennedy's speech on June, 6, 1966 on the occasion of Affirmation day for South Africa.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Pedi
"Pedi," in its broadest sense, has been a cultural/linguistic term. It was previously used to describe the entire set of people speaking various dialects of the Sotho language who live in the northern Transvaal of South Africa. More...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Xhosa
"Xhosa" is the generic name used for a number of related cultural groups in South Africa. Xhosa groups include the Mpondo, Bomvana, Bhaca, Thembu, Mpondomise, Xesibe, Mfengu, Hlubi, and the Xhosa proper. These Southern Nguni peoples, as...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ndebele
The people refer to themselves as "Amandebele," or "Ndzundza" or "Manala," denoting the two main tribal groupings. Early writers used the term "Transvaal Ndebele" to distinguish them from the Zimbabwean Ndebele. The majority of Ndebele...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Zulu
This site focuses on the country of Zulu in South Africa. It includes location, population, history and cultural relations, Kinship and Sociopolitical Organization, and religion.
Understanding Slavery Initiative
Understanding Slavery Initiative: Legacies: Apartheid
This article spotlights the National Party of Africa's role in the creation of apartheid, and its reuse as a tool of white supremacy, enforced by successive white minority governments in the Republic of South Africa in the 20th century.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Tswana
Batswana are divided into a number of subgroups or "tribes", There are approximately twenty-five totems, which crosscut "tribal" boundaries. Although Batswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most...
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy
A huge site dedicated to an understanding of the current global economic system. Includes the history, forces, values and perceptions that have shaped the world's economy. A comprehensive resource that includes a detailed economic report...
Curated OER
University of Texas: Mozambique: Relief Map
A relief map of Mozambique in southern Africa showing the highlands in the north and plains in the south. Clicking on the map will enlarge it. From the Perry-Castaneda collection.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Zande
The Zande, whose homelands lie within three modern African states (Republic of the Sudan, Zaire, Central African Republic), constitute a large and complex amalgam of originally distinct ethnic groups, united by culture and, to a...
Other
Press Display Real Newspapers on Your Pc
PressDisplay offers image captures of entire newspapers from 40 different countries. Select a country, then a newspaper, and view the entire contents of that newspaper online.
Other
Why Christmas: Christmas Cultures Around the World
A look at the different traditions and ways Christmas is celebrated around the world. Experience Christmas from Australia to Zambia, Italy to China, and many more countries.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Africa Before the Berlin Conference, 1884
This is an interesting map of Africa showing the continent before the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Physical and Political Map of Africa, 1879
Map of pre-colonial Africa, showing the predominately native countries and territories of the African continent in 1879. The counties include the Barbary States of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli and Fezzan, the Egyptian territories of...
Nations Online Project
Nations Online: Namibia
Excellent online resource that provides a country profile of the South African nation of Namibia, background details, and numerous links to in- depth information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Paul Kruger
A prominent Boer resistance leader against British rule and the president of the Transvaal Republic in South Africa.