INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ

Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol.

Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

The Story of South Africa

Where is South Africa?

• occupies the southern tip of Africa • border with Namibia, Botswana,

Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland• In the interior is the small country of Lesotho - completely surrounded by South African territory

Country division

• The country has nine provinces

Capital

• three cities act as South Africa capital

1/ Pretoria - executive power,

2/ Bloemfontein - judicial,

3/ Cape Town - legislative powers

• First inhabitants:

the San (hunter-gatherer) and Khoekhoe peoples (pastoral)

• Early Europeans and Khoekhoe – smallpox, assimilation

• 1652 Dutch East India Company (trade and vegetable garden for ships on the Eastern trade route)

History of South Africa

• 17C - Land and farming – trekboers

• Dutch, German and French immigrants – Afrikaner

• 1795 British took the Dutch colony

• Power – white elite, British

• British v. Xhosa

• Boers- not part of colonial rule (Dutch)

• 1834 the abolition of slavery

• Discovery of diamonds and gold

• Anglicization of government and freeing drove about Afrikaners to the “great trek” into African tribal territory

• Boers tried to establish republic - the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal)

• The Boers Republics

–diamonds• British interest on annexing

the Boers Republic to their

territory

• 2 Anglo Boers wars:

• British won - English as the official language in schools and the workplace

• Afrikaans - a Dutch dialect still spoken in SA

World War I

• capturing the two German colonies in Africa

• battles in Western Europe and the Middle East

• ports and harbours – rest-stops

World War II

• support Great Britain?

• helped defeat the Italian army

• the liberation of Madagaskar

• against Japan supplying men and ships

• Wars in Africa (Tobruk)

Apartheid

• racial separation

• the nonwhite population of South Africa was forced out of designated white areas

• 1961 South Africa declared itself a republic, severed its ties with the Commonwealth - objected to the country's racist policies

• the African National Congress – principal antiapartheid organization, its leader, Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to life imprisonment, released after 27 years

• The 1994 election - the country's first multiracial one, massive victory for Mandela

Nelson Mandela

• "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, … I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony …. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

People

• White, Blacks and Coloureds

• Apartheid – 75% blacks

• oppressive legislation, jobs for whites

• Whites held 90% of land

South African Flag

• Symbol: y – unity of people

• black = black, Indian and coloured people

• red = the violence that lead to freedom

• white = the colonial and apartheid past

• green and blue = the beauty of our land and ocean

• yellow = no meaning attributed - the Sun

Hymn

• Two anthems – official: The Call of South Africa

- unofficial: Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika – symbol of independence and resistance

- Now 5 official languages

INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ

Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem

a rozpočtem České republiky.