Kruger National Park

Kruger National Park is the largest animal reserve in South Africa. It covers almost 19 000 square km. And extends 360 km into the north and 60 km to the east. In the west and south of Kruger National Park there are two South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. The park has 8 main gates that allow entrance to the different camps. The names of these gates are Paul Kruger, Numbi, Malelane, Crocodile Bridge, Punda Maria, Orpen, Phabeni, Phalaborwa and Pafuri. In 1903 Paul Kruger made this park to control hunting and to keep many diffrent spicies from being extinct.

The park has:
517 spices of birds
1982 diffrent plants
31,000 African Buffalo
350 African Hunting Dogs
440 Black Rhinoceros
7,000 White Rhinoceros
25,000 Burchell's Zebras
500 Bushbucks
200 Cheetahs
300 Common Eland
6,600 Giraffes
9,000 Greater Kudus
3,000 Hippopotamus
1,500 Lions
1,000 Leopards
2,000 Spotted Hyenas
13,100 Elephants
3,000 Waterbuck
10,000 Blue Wildebeest
90,000 Impalas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_South_Africa

South Africa wild life

South Africa has a large variety of wildlife, including snakes, birds, plains animals, and predators. The country has 299 species of mammals and 858 species of birds.

On of the most famous and one of the big five is the Cape Buffalo, because off its size and aggressive behavior it has little natural enemies. The Cape Buffalo is known to kill lions, hyane

and even humans. A other name for this creature is Black Death because of its black skin and aggressive behavior.

There is also the Kudo,there are two types of Kudo. Lesser Kudo and Greater Kudo. The Greater Kudo are the most commen in South Africa, and are a type of African antelope. They are fast and stealthy. The bulls got horn thats how you seperate the sex, and they are brown-gray with white stripes from the back to the middel part of the body. The Kudo are know to be peacefull vegetarian and are mostly harmless.

Lions are well known to be located in South Africa and are of curse one of the big five animals. The lions can kill almost any animals they come across. But there are animals they dont attack like Buffalo, rhino, elephant, and crocodile. The lions are know to be abel to kill and eat humans. The African lion are one of the greatest predators in the world.

The ostrich is the largest non-flying bird in Africa, and the largest egg laying bird in the world still alive. The ostrich can run at speeds up to 74 km/h because of its long neck and tall legs.

The black mamba.
Is one of the most deadly snakes not only in Africa but the world. Its called the black mamba because of its black mouth Normally, mambas have a dark olive, olive green, grey brown, or metal color. Some of them have a light band around their body. As mambas get older, their skin begins to darken.

The black mamba is the fastest snake in the world and can reach up to 20 km/h, all tho its known to only use this speed when hes running away. Also the black mamba injects poison to kill 10-12 grown men in one bite (120 mg) . But it can also deliver up to 250mg.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_South_Africa

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Nelson Mandela is born in a village name Mvezo in Juli 18, 1918. He was the first president in South Africa. He was an anti-apartheid activist before he was a president.
He was convicted on charges of sabortage, and much other crime youst because he was a leader. He was the leader of African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.
Mandela served 27 years in prison and many years on Robben Island, only because he wanted the world to be better for the black people.

His life on Robben Island

This is the prison yard on Robben Island.







This is Nelson Mandelas prison cell on Robben Island.






Nelson Mandela was imprisoned eighteen of his twentyseven years in prison on Robben Island.

The prison was very bad. His cell was smal and he had no bed to sleep in.

He was a D - group prisoner. A D - group prisoner is the lowest prisoners. Two visits and two letters at one year. The letters was ofthen unreadable and delayed for long periods.










He was releast from de prison on 11. Februar 1990. He have recived more than one hundred awards after 11. Februar 1990. The biggest award he recived was the Nobel Peace Price in 1993.


Madiba is a honorary title he have in South Africa.

Some things he has done.

This is Nelson Mandela in 1939.











Nelson Mandela belongs to the Thembu people.
His father was the boss off the Thembu dynasty,
before the englishmen came.



Nelson and his mum, moved to his uncle king Jongintaba Dalindyebo
He grownd up with his uncel. And he was educated in many things when he lived there.



He also began on Fort Hare university, but that didn't go so vell.
Fort Hare university is a very important university for the black people.



He moved to Johannesburg and got a job when he was finished whit the university.
He began on the Wits university in 1943.

sources:
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

South Africa under apartheid

Apartheid is a social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

The implementation of the policy, later referred to as "separate development," was made possible by the Population Registration Act of 1950, which put all South Africans into three racial categories: Bantu (black African), white, or Coloured (of mixed race). A fourth category, Asian (Indians and Pakistanis), was added later.

The system of apartheid was enforced by a series of laws passed in the 1950s: the Group Areas Act of 1950 assigned races to different residential and business sections in urban areas, and the Land Acts of 1954 and 1955 restricted nonwhite residence to specific areas.

As time went, The Apartheid devoloped itself to become alot worse. The goverment made seperate sections for each race. Members in one section, were forbidden to work and live in one of the other sections.
Non white had to carry "pass books" to prove that they were allowed to travel in the white sections. The "pass books" contained fingerprints, photo and infomation about race and if they had accses or not.


A "Non-White" with his pass-book under the Apartheid.




The Apartheid laws forbade social contact between diffrent races. For example there was illegal marriages despite the race politics.
There was "white only" jobs and places and very low standard for the "non white" .
In some cases the "non whites" were treaded like animals.



A "Men's toilet, only for white.


Most of the black majority of South Africa, had resisted Apartheid for many years.
They started rioting. A lot of the people that rioted and protested got shot, hurt, killed or sent to prison for life. One of those was Nelson Mandela, he was sent to prison for life because he protested against the laws.




A picture of a riot against the Apartheid.



Finally in 1990 the white regime surrendered. And after almost thirty years of prison Nelson Mandela got released.Three years later all races could vote and Mandela received nobel price. Only a year after he got elected as South Africa's first black president in a democratic election.




Nelson Mandela, Nobel Price winner and South Africa's first black president.


sourcers: http://www.daria.no/skole/?tekst=6429
http://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html
Pictures: www.google.com

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