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Une Ville Afrikaner Universitaire
... East India Company Eastern attributed their farms, tools, implements, seeds, reimbursed later.
The vines spend a hundred in 1655 to 1.5 million in 1700, including 40,000 for the brothers de Villiers and Jean Roy for much of Lourmarin (Luberon). Wine of South Africa, the seventh largest producer, is concentrated to 90% in the former Huguenot colony.
So we can thank the religious intolerance of the Sun King for the wonderful quality of the wines of South ...
Viva Madiba!!
... been on the first row, but those were for important members of the university staff and speakers in the lecture series.) I had awoken to the morning shows celebrating Mandela Day, which is also Nelson Mandela's birthday (his 94th!!) - a day where South Africans were expected to do 67 minutes of service. Why 67 minutes, you ask? Well, we asked some South Africans as well and the two that we asked didn't know. It turns out that Mandela did 67 years of service ...
The Children are Our Future
... the school sometimes is able to get bread for the students from the local Pick-n-P! ay groce ry store. The average age of the students for the school was 18, and some of the students were in their 20s still attempting to get through secondary school. He shared that the school had not had running water for 2 years and that they sometimes got water delivery (in the form of water bottles) to share with the students. Through all of this, he kept saying, "we can't blame apartheid too ...
Back in Bloemfontein
... lecture from Daryl Smith, a nationally known writer on diversity in higher ed in the U.S. She has been mentioned as a person who might come to MHC to help with our diversity commission, so I was looking forward to this session. I sat close to the front, in hopes to meet her afterwards and to learn more about what her thinking was about diversity in higher education. Her lecture was about the evolution of higher education, social justice, equity and leadership in the U.S., so I knew ...
A Leisurely Morning...Sort Of.
... traditional food and hear traditional music. The only part that frustrated my simple feminist mind that whenever food was served up until the 1800s, the men of the village were served first. I knew it was a custom, but having my focus be gender for the week, I could easily take that back to my group for conversation and talk about how this might have influenced current African culture. I enjoyed the village and the chance to learn a bit more, plus ...
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