HWC 14-15

This article discusses the 2014-2015 South African and United Kingdom Seasons, where artists from both regions showcase their artwork. This relates to the apartheid idea because this event helps to South Africa recover from the apartheid and reunite the countries.

This article explains the faults in South Africa's education system, including the fact that teachers are not able to correctly teach their children to read since they do not have enough training themselves. In addition, the teachers often do not take school seriously, and many text all day and give their students the answers to tests to ensure a high pass rate. Since teachers do not recognize the importance of reading and education and do not instill of love of learning into students, the schools in the country are becoming worse and worse. This relates to the assignment since it discusses the problems that still remain in South African education after years of improvements.

The BDS-SA, an organization that wants to raise awareness for the Palestinians, put up billboards advertising their cause. However, they were taken down because they violated a city law about insensitive advertising. The BDS-SA made a lawsuit saying that the billboards' removal, and the city law, violated the constitution's freedom of speech. They won this case on Thursday, which shows how South Africa is recovering more from the apartheid because of freedom of speech and fair trials.

Nigerian rescue workers claim that at least seventy bodies have been recovered from the collapsed church. Officials believe that the cause of the collapse was the addition of floors to the church that the foundation of the building could not support. There had been at least five South African tour groups visiting the church at the time of the collapse. This is the first time in recent history that a massive number of South Africans have died on foreign soil.

This article tells about the photographer Ernest Cole who was a photojournalist during the apartheid. His book of photos was banned in South Africa and was only brought to major attention very recently, when there are many exhibitions. This relates because it shows how influential the little-known stories of the apartheid are, and the photographs give us a glimpse into the life of South Africans during this time.

Although South Africa is developing quickly and may be Africa's most advanced country, the youth unemployment rate has drastically soared to about 36%. Many people believe that the youth unemployment statistic is more accurately 50%. In addition, the brand new parliament in this nation is at "war with itself," in that there is a disagreement in socialist and capitalist views. Some believe that the new method will not work or pay off and the country should return to the previous socialist system.

This article discusses how HIV and AIDS in South Africa dropped dramatically with the help of funding from the USA, who provided education for doctors and medicine for those who were infected. However, since the USA is now funding other countries, South Africa is now seeing another rise in AIDS, which many hope is only temporary as the country struggles to pay for more AIDS care. This relates to our research since it describes what has been done with AIDS in South Africa and what now needs to be done.

A new requirement, states that parents, regardless of nationality, must produce unabridged birth certificates for children travelling with them. Also, one parent travelling with a child must have the written consent of the other parent or a court order granting them legal guardianship.

This article reports that 67 South Africans were killed in the collapse of a Nigerian church. Eighty bodies have been recovered and 131 people rescued alive. The church collapsed on September 12.

This article explains why crime is running rampant in South Africa with over 16,000 murders and 21,000 child assaults in a single year. The author makes the case that South Africa's past, including the apartheid, is to blame for the current crime rate. The laws that segregated blacks and a justice system that favored whites created a general distrust and blatant disrespect for the law, especially after some that violated basic human rights were not prosecuted even when they did not apply for amnesty. A slow redevelopment of trust in the law can possibly make the crime rate drop dramatically.

Schools in South Africa are creating new rules that are racist to black students. The schools are making rules that discriminates people by their hair.

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa made a policy that at least 50% of the professional sports team must be colored. The article says that some teams have failed to meet this requirement.

This connects to the issues of the activity because the article describes how white people in South Africa are still dominating most of the land. This still occurs even 20 years after apartheid.

Ferguson, Missouri is torn by a police shooting involving possible racial issues. Some people have decided to donate to the police officer, while others have donated to Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who is now deceased.