The document provides a history of South Africa from early humans to modern times. It discusses: - Early humans living in South Africa over 2 million years ago. - Dutch colonization in the 1600s and establishment of Cape Town. Slavery and conflicts between Dutch and British for control. - Discovery of gold in 1880s increased conflicts and hardships for native peoples. - From 1948-1994, apartheid laws divided people by race and restricted rights of non-whites. Protests grew against inequality. - Nelson Mandela helped lead the anti-apartheid movement and was imprisoned for 27 years before apartheid ended in 1994. The rest of the document describes the author's

1. SouthAfrica
A view of Cape Town and Table Mountain from Robben Island

4. Early History
• The earliest humans lived
in Africa. Evidence of
them has been found in
South Africa in places like
the Sterkfontein Caves
where 2.3 million year old
Mrs. Pies was discovered.

6. Regan and me, at the caves
Hair nets for under our helmets

7. Modern History
• South Africa is a beautiful land once
dominated by different African tribes.
• In the 1600’s the Dutch East India Company
established a port in Cape Town to provide
fresh fruits, vegetables and water to passing
ships.
• Slave labor was used. These people included
the local native people and slaves brought by
the ships.

8. The Castle

9. The castle was completed in 1679. It was built
by the Dutch East India Company.

11. • In the 1850’s Inside the Castle

13. • The British came to South Africa in the 1790’s and
a conflict for control of Cape Town between the
British and Dutch began.
• Descendants of the Dutch who were farmers
moved north and east in the country and there
were conflicts with the native people of these
areas.

14. • Gold was found in Johannesburg in the 1880’s.
This caused more fighting between the British
and Dutch.
• The British eventually took control of South
Africa.
• Gold mining meant more abuse and hardships
for the native people.

15. • In 1910 the South African Union was formed
and South Africa was free to rule itself, but the
people in power were the former British and
Dutch descendants.
• For the next 80 years non-white people were
not treated as equal citizens in their own
country.

16. Apartheid
• From 1948-1994 a government system of
Apartheid was law. This law declared:
– People were divided into groups that had separate
rights, White, Black, Indian, and Coloured
– Black and White people couldn’t marry
– Non-white people could not get some jobs
– Non-white schools were not as good as white schools
– Non-white people were restricted from areas and had
to carry passbooks.

19. • The government moved non-white people to
townships and homelands.

22. Fight for Freedom
• Adults and students fought for equal rights for
all people.
• Students protested against poor education.
• Adults fought to have the freedom to travel
where they wanted to and live where they
chose to.
• The African National Congress (ANC)
organized protesters.

23. Soweto
Hector Peterson Memorial

25. NelsonMandela

26. Robben Island

28. Cell block of the political prisoners

29. Courtyard outside Mandela's cell

30. Nelson Mandela’s Cell

31. My Travels with UWSP Adventure
Travel

32. Kruger National Park
Number of Species:
336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians , 114 reptiles, 507 birds
and 147 mammals.
7,500 square miles, about the size of New Jersey

33. Rhinoceros
Cape Buffalo
Leopard
Lion Elephant

36. Wild African Dogs
These are a very endangered animal with only four populations in all of
Africa. One group is in Kruger with a total population in the park of 400-
450 wild dogs. They live and hunt in packs.

37. Wild dogs can only survive in packs. They can run at
40 km/h (24mph) for up to 5 km (3.2 miles) and have
bursts to 60 km/h (37mph).

38. Cape Buffalo

40. African Fish Eagle

41. Red billed Hornbill – Chili bird

42. Lilac Breasted Roller

44. Lion Group with a Kudu kill

45. Female Kudu

46. Male Kudu

48. Magpie shrike

49. Elephants are the largest land mammal. They eat up
to 600 pounds of grass, shoots, bark and roots a day.
They produce 330 pounds of dung a day.

50. Elephants are being poached for their ivory tusks in Central
Africa. In Kruger the big poaching problem is rhinoceros
tusks.

52. Giraffes are the tallest animals on Earth. Male
giraffes can weigh over 2500 pounds.

55. A hippopotamus lives in a group called rafts,
with usually one male and several females with
their young.

58. Magpie shrike

59. Cape Glossy Starling

62. Goliath Heron

63. Nyala

64. Klipspringer

66. Our Driver

69. Dwarf Mongoose – living in an old termite mound

71. Selfie with elephants

72. My safari group

73. Back in the vans and off to Addo Elephant Park

74. Housing along the way

77. Kruger National Park
Johannesburg
Addo Elephant Park

79. Addo Elephant National Park
• This Is South Africa’s 3rd largest park
• In 1931 a farmer fenced in the only 11 last
elephants in the area to protect them.
• Now it is a national park with over 600
elephants, plus spotted hyenas, lions,
leopards, antelope, zebra and the endangered
flightless dung beetle.

80. Getting Instructions for our time at Addo

81. Animal blind for wildlife viewing
inside the compound.

82. Yellow Mongoose

83. Warthogs – a wild pig. It is hard for them to
bend their necks, so they bend their front legs
back so they can reach the grass.

85. Zebras have unique striping, no
two are exactly alike.

88. Leopard Tortoise

92. Lions – Six lions were introduced to Addo in 2003. There are
now 7 adults and 2 young. We saw the male adults in a
chase.

99. This guy walked right next to our open safari vehicle!

101. Spectacled Weaver

102. Reed Cormorant
Hadeda
Terrapin

103. Here is an elephant eating spekboom; some places in
Addo are thick with this plant and make viewing more
challenging.

105. We watched these two little
elephants wrestling.

106. Heron

108. Zebra alert as the lions are in the area.

112. Listening to Cathy, from the Great Fish
River Reserve. She works to protect
Black Rhinos.

113. These kids were at a gas station in a little town we travelled
through. We stopped for gas and chatted with them.

116. A stop for lunch and a look at a river gorge
that leads to the Indian Ocean.

118. Indian Ocean

119. Kruger National Park
Johannesburg
Addo Elephant Park
Wilderness

120. Moontide Guesthouse
in Wilderness, South Africa

121. Our room in the trees!

122. Our
View of
the river
valley

123. Breakfast area and lounge

124. There were 2 dogs and 2 cats at Moontide. This cat spent the
night in our room. She just waited until we opened the door
and then settled in.

125. Abseiling Crew
Abseiling (/ˈæbseɪl/ or /ˈɑːpzaɪl/; from German
abseilen, meaning "to rope down"), also called
rappelling, is the controlled descent of a vertical
drop, such as a rock face, using a rope.

126. All geared up

128. Climb to the top

129. Nervous
abseilers

130. Excited abseiler!

131. Over I go!

135. I hung for a while at
this spot. It was so
fun and beautiful, I
didn’t want to go
down.

138. View from the
cave at the
bottom

140. The next morning some of us canoed.

148. Giant Kingfisher

150. Off to De Hoop National Park, continuing along the Garden Route

153. Menu in Afrikaans

157. Kruger National Park
Johannesburg
Addo Elephant Park
Wilderness
DeHoop National Park

158. De Hoop National
Park. Sand dunes in
the background.

159. Our cottage for four.

162. Eland

163. Fadli Wagiet from the Dept.
of Education in the Western
Cape – one of our guides,
and a friend from Cape
Town.

164. Dr. Martin Hendricks, a research scientist from the
University of the Western Cape, an a friend of mine
from Cape Town.

165. Rocks
along the
Indian
Ocean
shore.

168. Whale Watching
Southern Right Whale

169. A wet hike up a mountain at Potberg
Environmental Education Center at De Hoop.

171. A climb into a cave

172. Ancient Cave Drawings

176. Blue Cranes

177. Kruger National Park
Johannesburg
Addo Elephant Park
Wilderness
DeHoop National Park
Cape Agulhas

178. Next Stop……….

181. Lunch in Hermanus on Walker Bay

182. Off to Cape Town

185. Kruger National Park
Johannesburg
Addo Elephant Park
Wilderness
DeHoop National Park
Cape Agulhas
Cape Town

186. View from the mountain pass
with Cape Town in the
distance.

187. Entering the city of Cape Town.

189. Our Accommodations

190. Our front yard view

192. Our first trip took us to Robben Island. This is a
view of Table Mountain which is in Cape Town

193. Lunch and talk of a surfing experience

194. A visit to an informal settlement called
Egoli. This is David, a guide from the
Red Cross. Egoli was first built on a
soccer field because families were
kicked off a nearby farm.

195. The other man is a leader in this
community of over 400 families.

196. Children from Egoli returning from a day at
school.

209. This man comes from a church that
feeds the children on Thursdays.

212. Students have built a solar battery charger. The people of
Egoli can pay a small amount to charge their phones.

213. Portable toilets for night time. It is too dangerous, because
of gangs, to go to the port-a-potties at night.

215. After leaving Egoli we drove through a
township called Langa

222. School children on their
way home.

223. Trip to the downtown V & A Waterfront Area.
Selfie with seals

224. View of Table Mountain from the Waterfront Mall
area

225. Lion’s Head Hike

226. A view from the way up

230. Cape Town from the top of Lion’s Head

232. Top of Lion’s Head

233. Our friends, the
Schullers made it
up!

234. Climbing the chains to get down.

238. Kalk Bay Fishing Village

240. Fish Market

245. Surfing in Muizenberg Bay