Links

south Africa: country, culture, people, language

South Africa's information portal
A sort of information portal about South Africa, which I found quite uselful.

Cape Town Travel
Information about Cape Town

Xhosa people & culture
Information about the Xhosa people and culture on Wikipedia

Xhosa language
Information about the Xhosa language on Wikipedia

Xhosa-English dictionary
One of the best Xhosa-English dictionaries I've found on the web

khayelithsa and other townships in South Africa

Life in Khayelitsha
A look at life in one of South Africa']s largest townships - history, houses, getting around etc.

Photos from Khayelitsha
An interesting web photo exhibit from a photographer who has been taking pictures in Khayelitsha for a few years

Esangweni Senior Secondary School
Home page of Esangweni school. While Tobi and I were at Esangweni, we updated the webpages. For example, check out the Webpage group page to see some of the exercises we did with the learners. Or look at the Newsletter group page to read the school newsletters we helped to publish.

eTownship
A website with information and news from the townships surrounding Cape Town.

literature, films and music

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela's autobiography. For everyone who wants to know more about South Africa, especially history and politics. Nelson Mandela is really a hero to South Africans.

Lonely Planet South Africa
Info about South Africa from the Lonely Planet website. The Lonely Planet "South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland" book which I bought a couple of months before my departure to South Africa, proved to be really useful throughout my stay.

André Brink
André Brink is my favourite South African writer. One of his books I liked the most is A Dry White Season, which gives an insight into the horrible apartheid regime in South Africa. There is also a movie based on the book which I haven't seen yet.

Tsotsi (film)
Tsotsi is a South African movie, set in the the Soweto township of Johannesburg. It won an Oscar as the best foreign language film of the year in 2006. It gives an insight into the life in South Africa's townships and shows that there's no clear border between "bad" and "good" - in life things are always complex than that..

Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the new South Africa (documentary)
Testing Hope is a documentary from 2007, filmed in the Nyanga township, focuses on the life of a group of graduating high schools students, showing the difficulties they face and outlining the still existing inequalities in the South African education system.

Freshlyground
Freshlyground is a band from Cape Town, they are becoming more and more popular in South Africa. I had the chance to attend their concert in Khayelitsha. Also, I was lucky to get a picture with the head singer Zolani. In 2008, i attended their concert in Estonia.

organizations

ASA
ASA - the European network for development education

GLEN
GLEN - Global Education Network of Young Europeans

Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation
AKÜ - Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation (Arengukoostöö Ümarlaud)

My blog
The blog I wrote while in South Africa

Website of Augustas
The website of Augustas Kligys, a Lithuanian who was working as a volunteer at Esangweni school in 2004.