Sub-Saharan Africa Southern Africa

Namib Desert, Skeleton Coast

Swakomund, Namibia, Bismarck Strasse

Guess who lives here:

The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, in Harare. The people of Zimbabwe are starving while the world stands by and watches, including South Africa, their closest neighbor.

Mugabe on YouTube

Political Cartoon drawn 6/25/08, two days before the undisputed runoff between Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, who has dropped out and sought refuge in the Dutch Embassy in Harare.

Great Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi, Zimbabwe

Okavango Swamp, Botswana, Hippos

Kalahari

Mozambique flooding

Gapminder Link

Table Mountain, Cape Town

Robben Island Cape Town

Robben Island, 1970s

Drakensburg Mountains, South Africa

South African High Veld, 1986

Voortrekker Monument, Transvaal

Dutch Architecture, Natal

Kimberly Diamond Mine

Stellenbosch Vineyards, Cape Town

Johannesburg

Apartheid

Mohandas K. Gandhi in South Africa, 1895 and India, 1931

Apartheid Cape Town, 1986

SOWETO

Johannesburg, 1986

Kwazulu Market

Durban, Natal

Apartheid-era “Independent & Self-governing” Homelands

Natal

Pieter Willem Botha (January 12, 1916 – October 31, 2006), commonly known as "PW" and Die Groot Krokodil (Afrikaans for "The Big Crocodile"), was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to Botha was a long-time leader of South Africa's National Party and a staunch advocate of racial segregation and the apartheid system. While in power he made some small concessions towards human rights, but he always refused to apologise for apartheid. He refused to testify at the new government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was fined and given a suspended jail sentence for his refusal to testify in relation to human rights violations.January October Afrikaansprime ministerSouth Africastate presidentSouth AfricaNational PartyapartheidTruth and Reconciliation Commission He was not related to contemporary National Party politician Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, who served as his foreign minister.Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha

Frederik Willem de Klerk March 18March 18, 1936) was the last State President of Apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May De Klerk was also leader of the National Party (which later became the New National Party) from February 1989 to September State PresidentApartheid-eraSouth AfricaNational PartyNew National Party De Klerk is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supporting the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 for his role in the ending of apartheid.apartheidNobel Peace PrizeNelson Mandela He was the Deputy President of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until In 1997, he retired from politics.Deputy PresidentSouth Africapolitics

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 7/18/ /5/2013

First Mandela interview 1961 First Mandela interview Mandela speaks on tolerance On Ubuntu On Ubuntu Apartheid on YouTube Nelson Mandela sings about killing whites on YouTube ~ 2000 Nelson Mandela sings about killing whites on YouTube

Apartheid, 1986

Grannies against Poverty & AIDS, Khayelitsha Township, Cape Flats