South Africa, ten images
[st] 1.- Sangomas, animism, sorcery. dos sangomas (healers) They sang and danced while preparing what was known as "African beer."…
Mandela
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Mandela game
And now, that the past 18 July Mandela had fulfilled 96 years, do the game for a second imagine that would be the world and its endless wars if we substituted the leading Netanyahu, Putin, Arafat, Bush, Milosevic…. by Mandela. Is it easy answer truth?
Qunu: Mandela's neighbors
"I hated him 25 December he invited us all to his house and gave every child a gift. I did not want any child without a toy stay. The 1 January was the same but with the elderly ". "That was Christmas in Qunuo to Mandela", He tells me a young woman with whom I share table ...
How God dies?
Africa live with the death of a more natural that Westerners. For them death is the downstairs neighbor coming to ask for sugar. For us it is a breach in the sky that mercilessly out a demon or angel that comes to fuck the soul.
Cape Town (In): Robben Island, Mandela's cage
A poster, with a metal gate area shared cells (berths), in which there were always more bodies mattresses, explains the different menus that could be eaten in the criminal: Asians and mestizos (coloureds) were members of the group B; while Bantus (black) members of the Group C.
"When we hear talk Madiba"
A chant sung in Zulu by hundreds of people who lament sounds, to victory in defeat, South Africa too used to losing gaining. The street is a people boil. Hundreds of people watching, dance, sing, photograph, pray, callan.
Johannesburg: City of Miracles
No place amazes me more than this: for his cruelty coal and gold color, for his last race with sticks and forgiveness unexplained. A South African fatalism me I think its virtue: there is no country in the world that can boast of living so well with tears.
South Africa Correspondent: goodbye to the sycophants of papo
(...) Correspondent work takes you away from the prominent papos sycophants who prowl the newsroom; of that market with the drool and news (...) of those who admire the amount of hours over the quality of the words; of pats on the shoulder when your subject is shaken by the social gatherings; of the miserable than ever tremble at the keyboard ...
