Reliving South Africa's First Freedom Day

Discuss South African apartheid, the anti-apartheid movement, and the literature and music it inspired. Slides contain images and facts about life in South Africa during apartheid, social uprisings such as Soweto, and the various...

Learn about religion in South Africa, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.

Students explore apartheid. In this South Africa activity, students discover details regarding apartheid and determine how the black majority suffered under apartheid. Students discuss why the white minority...

Students read "A South African Storm" by Allison Howard and participate in a class discussion that examines Howard's letter for both content and writing form. They write a letter using some of the techniques they identified in Howard's.

South Africa's Freedom Day celebrates the nation's freedom from apartheid. Read personal stories of South Africans and how their lives have changed since April 27, 1997. Includes video

Scholars Online video curriculum through which students explore the history of South Africa, the development of a race-based society, and the decision by some members of the anti-apartheid movement to use violence to oppose the...

Learners participate in a roundtable forum to discuss the notion of defying South African national government policies in order to fight AIDS after reading the online article, "A Bold Move on AIDS in South Africa."

Learners explore racial prejudice in South Africa through the reading of "A South African Storm" by Allison Howard. In this cultural and geography instructional activity, students discuss ethnicity and prejudices and cite examples from...

Now a World Heritage site, Robben Island is asymbol of the brutality of South Africa?s apartheid past. It was prison to freedom activists such as Nelson Mandel. Read the legacy of this island from early Dutch colonizers to the present.

Video program featuring two case studies about Africa entitled South Africa: This Land is My Land and Kenya: Medical Geography. The first study explores the post-apartheid government and economy. The second study investigates health care...