HWC 14-15

Desmond Tutu argues that racial integration is not occurring on the rugby field and the negative effects of apartheid are still being felt. As a result, a new regulation proposes that there must be at least seven non-white players on South Africa's Springboks next year. This relates to the integration of colored people into aspects of society after the fall of apartheid.

This article relates to two South African issues: education and HIV. Unplanned pregnancies give women an unfair disadvantage in schooling systems. These pregnancies also cause health issues among women (HIV), leading to a high dropout rate and hurting the education systems.

Former African President F. W. de Klerk argues that the ANC should not implement drastic changes to current property laws in South Africa, as the new laws could cause economic collapse. This land redistribution issue is one that sprang from the end of the era of apartheid. The fact that it is continuing to be an issue highlights the great effect that apartheid had in South Africa.

Sixteen undocumented immigrants have escaped from the Rustenburg police station where they were imprisoned. The immigrants from Mozambique and Zimbabwe, escaped between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning after cutting a hole in the roof. An investigation has been taken place and police say serious steps will be taken if it can be found that there was negligence on the part of some officers.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will be in Lesotho to mediate in the mountain Kingdom's political and security problems. An emergency meeting was held this week after union leaders disagree on a date to reopen Parliament in Maseru. Ramaphosa will himself meet with members of the fragile alliance government and other political role players to try and restore stability to the mountain Kingdom.

French volunteer working for Medicines Sans Frontieres in Liberia has caught Ebola. She was put in quarantine and sent to France in a special medical plane as soon as the early symptoms of disease appeared. President Obama has called Ebola a major threat to global security and announced a major expansion of our country's role in annihilating its spread.

This article talks about the AIDS issue in South Africa. This connects to the issue of AIDS addressed in this activity through how AIDS has greatly affected the people of South Africa.

A roadside ad that stated "Tombstones, buy one get one free." This was the essence of AIDS in years as recent as 2008. Now South Africa is one of the most praised countries in Africa with its abilities to fight AIDS, especially during the Ebola virus outbreak.

The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has been placed under police protection after her controversial decision to acquit the athlete. Some groups in South Africa have expressed concern of Judge Thokozile Masipa which they say could amount to racism.

After Oscar Pistorius was charged of manslaughter for killing Reeva Steenkamp, the Judge was placed under police protection for clearing the paralympian for murder. This trial has sparked angers around the world and many protests throughout South Africa.

This article is about a black South African who was exiled because of his writings about the apartheid government. This connects to the issues addressed in this activity because is shows how serious apartheid is and how is still exists.

Friday morning a church collapsed in Nigeria killing at least 70 people, many of which were definitely from South Africa. President Zuma said that 67 of his compatriots died on Friday night, which is thought to be one of the worst tragedies in South African history, even more than many of the massacres during the time of Apartheid.

This article talks about a mining company in South Africa. This relates to the issues addressed in this article because of how the economy is greatly influenced by white-foreign companies.

This article describes how the why the people of South Africa are upset as Pistorius is found not guilty because of the lack of evidence. This relates to our previous information because almost as the people were segregated by their race, and the whites had more freedom/rights over the blacks; however in this scenario, it is applied to how this as he is a celebrity, this may have skid out of jail by his popularity rather than actual lack of evidence.

This articles describes the lack of growth and development of women extending into high education. This relates to the poor education systems in South Africa because as it experienced apartheid and as it was hard enough to get/have well educated teachers to teach the class now there is an issue to get well educated female teachers in higher education. In short, education continues to be a problem within South Africa, however the problems have down scaled, but are equally important.

This article describes the battle of HIV that Africa has continually fought against for decades. With the poverty stricken hospitals and low medical care it has become increasingly difficult to handle this disease. All in all, this disease has decreased the population as well as the life expectancy rate/age.

On his way to attend the Nobel Peace conference, the Dalai Lama was denied a visa to enter South Africa. This is the third time in five years that South Africa has denied a visa to the Dalai Lama. This coordinates with our lesson as that this article deals with oppression and during apartheid, races were oppressed from various things.

Frans Viljoen believes that South Africa should have taken the leading role in the fight against the Ebola disease, as opposed to the United States. He states that the US has sent many resources and personnel into Liberia to conquer this outbreak. The most productive contribution made by South Africa was to ensure that a sufficient amount of protective clothing was available to the cause.

Oscar Pistorius was cleared of the murder of his girlfriend but is still under trial for manslaughter since he believed that there was an intruder in the bathroom. This judgement is likely to be condemned since it will fuel fears that the decision was based on Pistorius's wealth and fame. This article is relevant to our lesson since it talks about the fear of the people toward the judgement and how people were scared of apartheid.

As South Africa approaches their 20 year anniversary of democracy, they also come close to election day where both candidates seem to have a fatal flaw. Jacob Zuma was found to have used twenty million dollars of government money to upgrade his house while the other candidate, Oscar Pistorius, is under trial for the murder of his girlfriend. Neither of these candidates are well liked or popular in South Africa. This applies to apartheid since it talks about the twenty year anniversary since it is also the anniversary of the end of apartheid.

This Article describes how the sport of rugby in South Africa still takes apartheid into account. In general, in South Africa, black people played soccer, while white people often played rugby. This is shown as the Springboks has 56 black players as opposed to 182 white players.

A new map has been made available in South Africa that shows Nelson Mandela inspired tourist attractions. It includes his old house and also the place where he was imprisoned.