Project Einstein South Africa - 4 Topics

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4 themes from Pretoria, South Africa

Photos by the kids from:Twsane Home of Hopeand Child Soul Care

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South Africa

We live in Pretoria. It is one of 3 capital cities in South Africa.

Our Flag!

South Africa!

We have 11 official languages in the country. They are:Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu

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For 46 years, we had an apartheid government - a system of racial segregation.

Whites and Blacks were separated.

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To tell a story about our lives in South Africa today, we broke

into four teams.

Each team chose a name, and practiced using the digital

cameras. Then we decided what stories we wanted to tell.

These are our themes: Culture,History, Peace

& Happy People.

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This is Pretoria, the city where we live.

Come, explore Pretoria with us!

We picked themes then took pictures in:

- Church Square in central Pretoria.- The parks and markets in our neighborhoods.

- Freedom Park, which honors the end of Apartheid.- The Union Building, where our first president Nelson

Mandela was inaugurated.

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Team: Cool GirlsTopic: Culture

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Traditional Ndebelé wedding“The women, they are who they are, and they are proud of who they are.” - NosiPhiwe

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Culture - Afrikaans wedding“I like red. Red is friendship and togetherness.” - NosiPhiwe

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“My favorite (photo) is the Ndebele wedding. If a girl is getting married, she walks in the street with that blanket.” - Nancy

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“Culture is where you come from. It’s the background of your ancestors, and your ancestors’ grannie.” - Zozuku

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“We do culture to remember our grandmothers and grandfathers, remember how they used to celebrate culture.” - Nancy

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“Our theme is culture. We chose culture because it’s our religion in South Africa. We have different religion, and how we dress and how we eat.” - Zozuku

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“I went to Church Square. It has a lot of history, but it also had a lot of people wearing their cultural clothes, and it was nice.” - Nancy

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Team: Fine Team Super Boys Topic: History

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“The theme that we chose is history, because we wanted to know more about the past, what happened last time people were fighting for freedom.” - Lindo

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“Apartheid was the discrimination against black people by the white people, a long time ago here in South Africa.” - Lindo

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“In the town, they (now) allow black people to walk free everywhere. Long time ago, they would not allow you to stand near the statues, or in the beautiful parks.” - Lindo

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“Now there is freedom in South Africa, but there’s another fight against xenophobia. People are killing the refugees, and it’s not good.” - Lindo

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“My hero is Nelson Mandela, who was fighting for us for freedom. He lived in the jail for 27 years for freedom. So that we could live in peace.” - Happy

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“The thing I took that makes me proud was the tree, the African Tree I took at Freedom Park.” - Doctor

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“My favorite picture is that one from Freedom Park, because it has the names of the people that were fighting against apartheid.” - Alfred

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Team: Cheese Boys Topic: Peace

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“We chose peace because long, long time ago South Africa didn’t have peace. Now is the new South Africa. South Africa has peace now.” - George

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“We chose peace because, long time ago, South Africa wasn’t having peace. Our grandmothers, our mothers were fighting. But us, we are free now.” - Thabiso

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“I’d love to show that we’ve got beautiful places in South Africa.” - Nlhanlhan (Lucky)

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“Peace, I think is when people are greeting each other when they pass each other. They don’t fight while they see each other.” - Thabiso

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“My favorite place to go was Church Square, because we see many people who have peace. They are smiling to each other, they are not angry to each other. ” - George

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“We went to church to take pictures of peace, because many people in church have peace. They don’t fight with others.” - Thabiso

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(song)

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Team: Girlfriends Topic: Happy People

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“We as Girlfriends, we chose Happy People because Happy People are everywhere.” - Boitumelo

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“Our theme was about Happy People. Cause we know that happy people, they’re all over, so you won’t struggle to find them.” - Loren

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“What makes me happy is when I see blue, and for being alive, I’m happy to be alive. I’m happy when I see flowers. Flowers make me shine!” - Loren

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“My favorite photo was when we were in Church Square, we found a lady and a guy laughing. We asked them to take a picture. They laughed during the picture, and

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“On Sundays I like to go to church with my mother and her friends.” - Itumeleng

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A singer celebrating at church.

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“We told them we were doing a project, so that they agreed with us. Then we took their photos.” - Boitumelo

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“Our project was nice and good, because it was not difficult to find happy people. Everywhere you go, everywhere you see, everywhere.” - Itumeleng

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