Beautiful South Africa

The strory is shared by a young African woman who traveled to South Africa in Winter 2011. During the World Cup. This happens in Johannesburg.

"During the flight, The plane hovers some countries in Southern Africa, in this night flight we an only see blue clouds and nothing else..The plane departed from Nairobi in the night to start its journey over Mozambique, Zimbabwe...In Zimbabwe we could see the town of Harare which was bright and then Tohoyandou in South Africa before landing on Johannesburg..One of the most largest and populous cities in the World!"

Johannesburg midnight: At the Airport OR Tambo people are not friendly it's really cold near the South Pole.

It was cold in Johannesburg due to the 2010 Winter. Johannesburg lies in the 28 to 33 in the south. GMT+1
"Johannesburg looks like Canada with the leafs on the ground and playgrounds. In quarters people are jogging with their dogs"

South Africans did invent anything it was Americans who did most. South Africans, French, British, Europeans, canadians just copied.  First with the crops(choco pops), they make their own cars, the German brand one (BMW..). On the TV.They copied all Americans programs and entertainment. There is "Oprah" of South Africa, The Bold and The Beautiful of South Africa(Isidingo [from a Zulu word: the need),"Idol played in Cape Town derived from "American idol", Big Brother is the same as the one of America( At the episode there was an Angolan(with a light skin, she was mad), a mixed Tanzanian, a Malawian, Ugandan, a South African(of course) regarding that it was played in the same buildings the previous episodes and in Johannesburg near the traffic.This episode was played by former candidates..)In South African commercials, movies, advertisement.., Whites look like white Americans and Black like African Americans , they may speak in Zulu in some scenes in their language and the Coloured also play.

 In South Africa, Whites look like Europeans, they behave as if they lived in Europe with their dogs(true European dogs), Teenagers have gothic style, there are disabled and older who probably knew the hard days of the Apartheid. White South Africans are true White, they mostly have blond, or red hair. nothing with the French or other Mediterranean but some have brown hair, they are Nordic or English. They descend from Dutch and other Europeans who cane to the South 400 years ago. In 1549 Bartholomau Diaz become the first European to long Africa coastline to find East Indies followed then by the other Portuguese Vasco Da Gama in 1588 who reached the Cape of Good Hope and then continued far to the Western coast at Christmas Day(Natal in portuguese). portuguese were not interested in the Southern parts that they decided to establish in the North of Natal their colonies which will become later the departure of innocent people to new American colonies in Brazil. Guinea Bissau, Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, some parts of Congo and Mozambique are then Portuguese possessions. Duthc had also their colonies in Asia in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia for spice trade. The Dutch East Companies(Vereenidge Oost-Indische Compagnie)departed from Nertherlands. They took the same route as Vasco Da gama but due to the elements in the top South. Their ship flew to the elements and the sailors who remained could survive on the hostile atmosphere and in the Cold Winter. They could wait the second ship one year later and then deciced to make this place where they survived a way-station for ships en route to East Indies. This place at the border of The Table Mountain was named "Cape of Good Hope", a windy place with beautiful sandy beaches and penguins.

Cape Town

Table Mountain

Former Dutch Flag

In 1652, The Dutch Jan Van Riebeeck too possession of the Cape of Good Hope. This date is the beginning of the Dutch presence in South Africa. The settlement became later a Dutch colony and a place of exil for the hundreds of French Huguenots who fled the peresecutions. Many of them with French family names as TerreBlanche, DuToit, DeVilliers, Marais..were given lands by the Governor Simon Van der Stel to cultivate, they could grow wines in Stellenbosch. The French was soon forgotten and Dutch learnt. The town of Frenschook is also an hritage of French Wine in South Africa. A new name was attributed to the new settlers in the southern tip of Africa. The"Afrikander"in Dutch meaning the "Africans" and  later deformed as"Afrikaner". They brought some diseases from Europe such as smallpox that devastated neighbouring stammering cattle breeder people. The Khoikhoi renamed "Hottentot". Due to the possessions of colonies in Dutch East Indies. Dutch brought from Indonesia, India, Malaysia and even Madagascar and Mozambiques, slaves to help them in farms. because most of them were poor farmers who tried to get a chance in South Africa( Kap Staad/Cape City). There were also immigrants from Germany (with family names such as Kruger) and Scandinavia.

San painting depicting the arrival of Western Bantu in South Africa 

Owing to a war with French, British started to get interests in the Dutch Cape colony which became a British dominion in the nineteenth century. British established their laws and practice. they abolished Slavery in the Cape Colony which generated the anger of the poor farmer the "Boers" with families, children, wives, servants, cows and carts. Boers started a long journey on unknown areas in the North of Cape. Their journey brought them to the large Vaal river. They compared their travel to Bible events when Moses and his people fled Egypt to promising lands in Israel. The voortrekkers were helped by the hunter-gatherers Sankhoi to survive on the Veld. The Great trek(Die Groot Trek) pass the Vaal river to the Transvaal region in the East Home to hostile tribes; the Zulu, Swazi, Tswana, Sotho. which led to bloody wars such as Bloody River Battle but conflicts and wars between Africans themselves let inhabited and wide lands to the Boers to settle as when Moises settled in Israel. The discovery of Gold in the Witwatersrand region brought thousands of pioneers from South Africa, Europe and even America to the rich Gauteng region in order to find fortune and wealth.

Gauteng Gold Rush-South Africa

 This area is perhaps the most concentrated in Gold in the World. This rush gave the city of Johannesburg. The gold was pumped from the soil, the work was done with the help of Zulu, Sotho and other  African workers. In another place a child found a huge piece of diamond in the Kimberley region and soon after the diamond rush started and founded the town of Kimberley in the Karoo. The Big Hole can still be seen in Kimberley as the result of Diamond found. Paarl is one of the cities founded from the diamond rush. At this time Afrikaner Republics were born.

The Orange Free State(Oranje Frijstaat)

Orange Free State flag

The Republic of Transvaal

Transvaal Republic Flag

Natalia republic

Natalia Flag

South African republic: Transvaal Flag

United States of Stellaland(Verenigde Staten Van Stellaland):

Stellaland Flag

Dutch Flag:

Dutch flag often used in Afrikaner republic Flags

At the end of the nineteenth century Anglo-Boer War stroke. There were Zulu in the Anglo-side. Kommando Boers used archaic weapons and horses during the Wars which will be used later by the Sotho in the highlands. The wars were provoked by the annexation of Transvaal and Orange Free State to British dominions. The rest of South Africa was part of the Cape colony and as territories in Africa were given to Great Britain during the Berlin Conference in 1885 a new project of rail road was set connecting Cairo in Egypt thousands of miles in the North to Cape Town in the South. British built concentration camps were thousands of Blacks and Afrikaners starved and died. Zululand as well as Bechuanaland (present-day Botswana) and Rhodesia(from Cecile Rhodes) were under British rule.

Union jack

 Louis Botha, Paul kruger(alias Oom Paul) to whom the "Kruger National Park" in the Transvaal was dedicated, and Andries Pretorius were eminent figures during the Anglo-Boer Wars. The second Boer War ended in 1909 after the treaty of Vereeniging was signed. The Afrikaner republics; Orange Free State Republic and South African Republic had to be annexed to Cape Colony and to the British Empire to form the New Union of South Africa. In 1910, South Africa became an Independent country.

Therefore, the New South Africa was celebrating the Union between Afrikaners and British South Africans. Dutch(later Afrikaans) and English became the two official languages. The new flag was the fusion between Union Jack and the two other former Boer Republic Flags(Orange free State and Transvaal Republic) inside the Dutch flag used by the Dutch East India Company in the Cape: Orange-White-Blue=Oranje-Blanje-Blou.

"South Africa National Flag"from 1928 to 1994

White South Africans were given all rights and control over wealth, resources and economy while Black were gathered in former and poor reserves called "Bantustan".

In 1947, the national party won the elections and a new policy of separation is set. Hendrik Verwoerd is known as the architect of this new policy. 

                                                       

                                                  APARTHEID means "apartness" in Afrikaans

                 

                    That means that any people had to be separated regarding their ethnic belonging in South Africa. 

   

  White and Blacks, Coloured and Asians hadn't the same rights. in every public places they had to be taken apart such as on transports, services, gates. In jobs White and Non-Whites hadn't the same job and justice wasn't the same for people of different race. the White was the one who had more right, than the Indian and the Coloured and lastly the Blacks. As well as in education, schools for Blacks were derisory. Their parents had to work as gardener, housemaid and cook in White homes. Any non-white had to present a pass before entering in a White area. Any non-white who wouldn't follow the rules would be kicked. Blacks had to live in poor areas in sub-urban towns far away from where they work, in "chic White quarter" where their White boss and family and dogs live. Nobody was there to denounce this policy. Anyone, any group who protested would be massacred or killed by the police or Army. Leaders were arrested, imprisoned and mistreated in prisons. Every privilege and value were given to the White Citizen. The Black was led to live in poor conditions with no hope for his wife and his children.

                             THIS TERRIBLE ERA OCCURRED FROM 1947 TO 1994. 

                             "This was the white achievement in South Africa"

Aparheid Museum Pictures

But Frederik Deklerk will soon become South African president and abolish apartheir and free "communist terrorists" in Robben Island including Nelson Mandela who wil be elected as the first president of the New Democratic South Africa. Blacks and white will wait in line to vote for their new leader. Madiba will also support the Boks during Rugby World Cup which will be the first worldwide event in South Africa. And South Africa won with the captain François Pinaar whoom Mandela trusted. The new national anthem will include Afrikanns, English but also Zulu and Xhosa. "Nkosi sikeleli Africa" was first written in Xhosa in 1911 by the ANC.

In South Africa then, Johannesburg, most people in the car are White. At 18:00 people return from job, the roads are full. There is security in quarters such as Sandton. Each house has a button to push on and portals are automatic. There are birds in gardens from different kind even ibis. Dogs are barking and from different breed: German shepherd, Pitbull, labrador.. There is also a new Black middle Class who live in white neighborhood. they also walk dogs from european races. Temperatures could drop to 2 degrees at night and there was eveen snow in eastern Cape! "Waving Flag" is almost the South African National anthem sang by many also represented in the Coca Cola advertisement during the 2010 World Cup.

Where Joseph Blatter used to live

South Africa glassed building

White people in South Africa re not necessary racist, 60% are normal despite the fact they have black maids who wash their clothes. 10% are really racist. White appaerance ranges from very blonde hair to ginger and brown hair plus few dark brown hair and few if not at all black. Thier french names: Devilliers, Dutoit, Terrblanche or Terblanche. Or Pinaar fro Afrikanns names. When you're black and walking on the street, white tend to avoid you, they will sometimes cross a whole road, and they will badly look at you. But it seems not to bother Black South Africans who gladly welcome them in restaurants and Café. They just seem annoyed by foreigners5mozambique, Zimbabwe, Congo) who supposedly "steal" their jobs and become vicitme of South African Xenophobia. Xenophobia is everywhere, Alexandra, Soweto, Cape Town, they talk about it on radio, TV, newspapers.. But British tend to be more peacefull than Afrikaners and it's actually them who were opposed against Apartheid. Like during Botha regime where many Black were killed or imprisoned in Robben Island. During Soweto riots, 700 young students were shot where protesting against the use of Afrikaans in school, including Hector Pieterson who will be carried by anonymous student and his sister running along desesperately crying for him. A museum was built in Soweto in memory to Hector Pieterson.

Hector Piterson shot and carried by an anonymous student.

Downtown Johannesburg is so empty

Mandela statue un Sandton-city

Many names in South Africa of older Apartheid representatives were replaced by those of Anti-apartheidreplensatitves such as Olivier R. Tambo. We can cite Mandela bridge, Mandela square, Mandela Bay etc.

Downtown Johannesburg looks like New York City-Manhattan

Random building near a mall in South Africa

South Africa Flag-Today

English is such a Poor language

English is the language spoken in England and later in Great Britain before spreading to the rest of the world through centuries of colonization and becoming now the Universal language of the World.

United Nations Flag

English belongs to Indo-European language and belongs to the Germanic branch. Due to the Roman civilization, French contact and later Spanish contact in America. English is Actually the result of a mixture between Germanic languages including Dutch, German, Finnish.., Latin, Greek and French.

To learn English, People just have to know some Germanic construction, French words and scientific Latin and Greek terms.

Union Jack

During its History English faced various changes from the Roman conquest and Latin introduction, Viking exploration from Northern freezy coastlines, French wars (including the Hundred Years War) from the Middle Age to the the XIII Century The Islands were even called Great Britain from the name of Bretagne(Britain) region in France(Brittany Peninsula) and numerous conflicts overseas in the Americas until Quebec become the only French Region in North America. In the New World, Contacts wit the "Savages" added New words to English language to name the new things Settlers discovered :Rivers, houses, Animals, trees, places..And War for Mexican territories gave Spanish ton to the New English of America.

Old map of the Americas

Common names for Germanic languages:

       English:I, good, boat, go, come, find, hound, hold, see, red, in, out, day ,road, new, war, god, sun, shoot,snow, door, water, road, wild, what? thank, hear,white, ice,horse, car, sleep, man, bridge, summer, dream, skull, flag, cow, eat, field, two, side, kid, old, king, low, hind, speak (or tell), wolf, year, late, open, stand, hot(warm), under, when, seed, hog, fox, most,milk, egg, the, off, hair, bring, die, star, knee, queen, an, wall, sand, earth, take
     German: ich, gut, boot, gehen, kommen, finden, hund, halten, sehen, rot, in, out, dag, neue,_, gott, sonne, schieben, schnee, tur, wasser,_,wild, was? danke, horen. weib, eis, pferd, auto, schalfen, mann, brucke, sommer, traum schadel, flagge, kuh, essen, feld, zwei, seite, kind, alt, konig,_,_,sprechen, wolf, jahr,_,offen, stehn, heib, under, wenn, saatgut,_,fuchs, meisten, milch, eier, die, aus, haare, bringen,_, stern, knie, queen, ein, wand, sand, erde,_
        Dutch: ik, goede, boot, ga, kom, hond, hold,  zie, rood, in, uit, land, dag, weg, nieuw, oorlog, god, zon, schieten, sneeuw, deur, water, weg, wild, wat, dank, hoor, houd, wit, ijs, paard, auto, slaap, dag, man, brug, zomer, droom, schedel, vlag, koe, eten, veld, twee, opzij, kind, oud, koning, laag, achter, spreken, wolf jaar, laat, open, staan, heet, onder, wanneer, zaad, varken, vos, de meeste, melk, ei, de, uit, haren, brengen, sterven, ster, knie, koningin, een, muur, zand, aarde.
       Danish: jeg, god, bad, ga, kom, find, hund, hold, se, rod, ind, ud, jord, dag, vej, nye, krig, gud, sol, skyde, sne, dor, vand, vej, vilde, hvad? tak, hore, hvid, is, hest, bil, sove, mand, bridge, sommer, dromme, kranium, flag, ko, spise, felt, to, side, knaegt,_, konge, lav, hind, taler, ulv, ar, sent, aben, stativ, varm, under,_,_,hog,_, fleste, melk, egg, det, off, har, bringe, dor, stjerne, knae, dronning, en, vaeg, sand, jord, tage. 
Norwegian: jeg, gode, bat, ga, komme, finn, hund, hold, se, rod, inn, ut, land, dag, vei, vill, hva? takk, hore, hold, hvit, is, hest, bil, sove, mann, bro, sommer, drom, skallen, flagg, ku,_, felt, to, side, kid,_, konge, lav, hind, snakker, ulv, ar, sent, apen, stativ, varm, under,_,_, hog,_, fleste, melk, egg, det, off, har, bringe, dor, stjerne, kne, dronning, en, vegg, sand, jord, ta.
    Swedish: jag, bra, bat, ga, kom, hitta, hund, halla, se, rod, in, ut, dag, vag, vag, nya,_, gud, sol, skjuta, sno,  dorr, vatten,_, vilda, vad? tack, hora, halla, vit, is, hast, bil, sova, dag, man, bro, sommar, drom, skalle, flagga, ko, ater, falt, tva, sida,_,_,kung, lag, hind,_, varg, ar, sent, oppna, sta, varm, under,_._,_,_, flesta, mjolk, agg, det, off, har, ge, do, stjarna, kna, drottning, en, vagg, sand, jorde, ta. 
    Icelandic: eg, gott, bat, fara, koma, finna, hound, halda, sjarauoa, raour, i, ut, dagur, vega, ny,_, guo, sol, skjota, snjor, dyr, vatn,_, viltur hvao? pakka, heyram haltu,, hvitur, is, hestur, bill, sofa, maour, bru, sumar, draumur, hofuokupa, fana,  boroa, svioi, tveir, hilo, krakki,_, konungur, lag, hind,  tala, ulfur, ar, seint, opna, standa, heirr, undir,_,_,_, mest, mjolk, egg, a, burt, har, feyja, stjarna, hne, drottning,_,_, sandur, joro, taka.

 Northern Europe

We can notice that the language is the same except for the writing but the pronunciation varies a bit due to the Christianization and Roman alphabet to write and read Bible and Scientific books. We just have to know that Accent betrays an Ancient language. This explain the variety of accent found in the various Germanic languages nowadays. many Languages in Europe died during the Germanic conquests. Some survived: The Basque in the Franco-Spanish border is a unique language. Irish is apart. Finnish brought some influence to the Scandinavian Peninsula. Sami are still living in Finland and use their own language, and owned reindeers. The Germanic language also spread during the Viking exploration in the Eastern Coasts including The Islands of the United Kingdom and Ireland and they could later successfully colonize the Island of Iceland, the Land of Ice and Fire. Their journey on the North Atlantic brought them to a Northern island of forest and green landscapes. Greenland before the New Little Ice Era(Little Ice Age) that started in the 16th century to the 1800's which was a period of Hunger, Cold and these old forests disappeared in Iceland and Greenland. They continued their Journey to the Canadian Coast where they landed on the NewFoundLand and Labrador. A long tine before the Vikings, Nordic People invaded the unkown areas of Europe before continuing out of Europe in Asia. They spread their civilization, languages, religions..They are known as "Aryans" in India where they are the founder of the Indus civilization and Hindu Religion. They brought the Swastika symbol, a Religion symbol of living beings Interaction. Their descendent are still found in the area where they traveled. Blond hair, a light skin and sometimes blue eyes are the features of some knights and villagers in Iran, Pakistan, India. From this time grew the Indo-European Language Family.

Colsseum-Rome

As the Roman civilization grew and met Christianization. The Imperium spread over the neighbouring regions and farther. Wars started in the present-day France with the Gallic(Gaule) before winning and bringing the Roman Civlization. Winyards started to be grown, Roman architecture was found through the New Romnan territory and the Pagans out there found had to speak the Latin language and be Christianized. Roman Civilization brought complex Science, knowledge, Histrory, Numbers. The achievement of thousands years of Mediterraenan Civilization and even North African inculding the Egyptian one. Greeks brought their knozwledge in the Mathematiques which are still used now. The Roma Empire extended to the Islands overseas. Catholicism was brought and a Great wall(made of stones: Hadrian's Wall) accross the whole country was built by the Romans and is still standing now. Latin was from these dates to the Medieval Era written in Latin as the Mass and scientific Books. Later, Saxons, Vikings and other Pagans met the Christian Stream. The Books the Education was allowed for a few number of people. King Charlemagne in France made the Education(School) obligatory and for everyone. Pagan traditions could still survive through these eras and centuries: witches were burnt and considered as devils. Which hunts till continued in America when a witch trial series occured in 18th Essex, Suffolk and MiddleSex, Massachussetts former Colony, United States.

Some added Latin words to English heritage:

science, yes, for, of, orange, North, by, family, system, millennium, century, vacuum, referendum, free, dense, census, change, symbol, book, map, urban, satellite, phrase, verb, santa, include, maximum, minimum, podium, aluminium, dominium, calcium, sodium, potassium, de facto, recto, verso, versus, game, cycle, super, images, medicine, muscle, ball, circus, site, ethnic, ethic, song, soccer, current, post mortem,

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE

An incredible story brought by an imaginative boy. The story happens in Africa..

“When I was getting a nap in the afternoon, I was quite sleepy then I saw (At this time I were wondering how the future would be) kind of buildings or small churches spiritually built (the yellow walls) and connected with the sand! There was an afternoon sun with blue sky. The images were appearing high and strongly in my mind. When people that I know were talking I could feel them as they really were and different. They were wonderful and their voices came differently into my mind. Some were penetrating intensively like always being ordering, some were a lot of imagination like butterflies flying away. Then, I saw a road, this road is at the present time a road starting with a cathedral with many stores and building all along. But, there, the cathedral was smaller, painted in blue and white. Even, the buildings all along were painted in blue and white like for a specific reason and they appeared to have been cut off (was there a war?) and also seemed to have been rebuilt. Trees behind the cathedral especially branches were growing and growing high and trees seemed to have a great importance. On the road, there was a woman a bit old, small and fat. She was carrying plastic bags or packets and seemed to be accustomed to the modern life. All people in that road were wearing things on them including the lady as if the at atmosphere was not breathable. On the same road, cars were parked on, occupying the whole road and arranged in two rows. And those cars were high and heavy. Those big ones weren’t flying-cars but wheeled-cars and seemed to be locked or hermetically closed. They were blue and black. I could see far from that road a mosque (which does not exist now), a brown and huge mosque with many standard lamps all around (it was still in the afternoon) and that mosque seemed to have a great parking. I believed that those people were more connected with the god. Near the place of the cathedral, when there was a person, there were many persons (himself) such like a mirror. The real person would be in the middle with many other (false other?) persons like him in both sides becoming less clear and disappearing when seeing far from the real person. My cousin was 20 years old, smiling, his haircut was a beard and hair of the front cut in the same way with no other hair on the head. In the street, people were smiling, there were few people. There were still motorbikes and the driver could go anywhere he wanted to go. The sun was shining as if the atmosphere was lacking a layer because the sunbeam was high (almost white) and the shadow intensively black. There was such an emotion tearing and rising as the afternoon.

In fact, everything was blue, people could be taller, smiling and it was good and advanced.  And also, those people could be able to communicate with each other by the strength of their eyes (with blue and black).

The events were probably occurring in the year 2017 because it was a date I was referring to. And also, I walked on that road in the morning.

Images of the Future

RANDOM

SOWETO means SOuth Western TOwnships.

The south African flag is the fusion between ANC flag and the Dutch flag (most representative of the Afrikaner republics).

South  African Flag 

HTTPS means Hypertext Transfer Protocol secured.

400 people have been to the space.

Namibia is 825,418 km² large with a population of 2 million people, Lesotho with 30 355 km² large has the same population.

Khoikhoi

Khoikhoi  means “people people ”.

Polynesians reached the western coast of Canada at the same time Vikings reached the Canadian eastern coast.

Chimpanzees are three times stronger than humans.

Slavery was abolished in France in 1794 and was later restored eight years later by the emperor Napoléon. He is considered as a national hero by the French.

Central Africa was the last unknown land by Europeans in the world.

James Cook

James Cook reached Botany Bay Australia in 1770, Central Australia was explored in 1950.

The first Indian met Christopher Colombus in 1492, the last are still unknown.

Slavery in Brazil was abolished one decade before the twentieth century.

South Africa has eleven official languages.

KFC chicken wings

KFC means Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Being fat in Andaman Islands can be sentenced to death.

Uruguay was the first country to win World Cup in 1930.

There are no tigers in Sri Lanka.

400 Asiatic lions live in the Gir forest, India.

French, German, Spanish, Irish, Swedish, Russian, Hindi are Indo-European languages.

Koala never drinks water.

Tsunami occurred Sunday, 26^th 2004.

Swastika is a Hindu symbol.

2 million people died during the mfecane in the nineteen century.

Pygmies were captured in Central Africa forests to European and American zoos at the beginning of 1900.

Without “Uncle Tom cabin novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe the civil war would have probably never occurred and slavery in the United States abolished later.