Project Einstein South Africa - 4 Topics

4 themes from
Pretoria, South Africa

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

Saturday, June 12, 2010 2

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

Our
Flag!

South Africa
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


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

Whites and Blacks were separated.


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.


This is Pretoria, the city where we live.

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.

Come, explore Pretoria with us!

Team: Cool Girls
Topic: Culture

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


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


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


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


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


“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


“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


Team: Fine Team Super Boys
Topic: History

“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


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


“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


“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


“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


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


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


Team: Cheese Boys
Topic: Peace

“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


“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


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


“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


“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


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


(song)


Team: Girlfriends
Topic: Happy People

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


“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


“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


“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
their picture is beautiful.” - Itumeleng

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


A singer celebrating at church.


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


“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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