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Extractions: South Africa LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE Swazi Home Map Art Activities ... Accommodation Swaziland has been inhabitated since the early stone age There are tracks of subsequent occupation by Bushmen, Sotho and Ntungwanguni clans. Swazi simply means the people of Mswati. The Kingdom used to be twice the size of the present day Swailand until the death of Mswati II, when the Boers and the British authorities fiddled around with the Boundaries. Stone Age
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Extractions: South Africa SWAZILAND Map Culture Art Activities ... Accommodation The landlocked Kingdom of Swaziland is surrounded on the north and south by Provinces of the Republic of South Africa, and on the east is bordered by Mozambique. The Kingdom provides travellers the ideal gateway between Kwazulu-Natal and the Kruger National Park, as well as Johannesburg and Maputo - no better route is available with added advantage of discovering a whole new country filled with bygone African traditions and culture With an area of just over 17,000 squarekilometres, Swaziland is the smallest country in the southern hemisphere (comparable to the size of Wales in the United Kingdom, and the stae of New Jersey in America).
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Extractions: Swaziland Arts and Crafts Swaziland's handcraft industries broadly falls into the two categories of formal and informal, with the latter comprising mainly rural Swazis who produce traditional items such as baskets, carvings and clay pots. The formal handcraft industry is well-established, operates within appropriate business parameters and produces a diversity of goods, including handwoven and knitted fabrics, tapestries, screen printed items, jewellery, ornamental candles and glassware.
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Extractions: Click for details. Click here for info The eight week Southern Africa Circuit which starts and ends in Harare will show us the superb variety of scenery, wildlife and culture which exists in the southern part of Africa. It is a combination of two safaris, Harare to Cape Town and Wilderness and Wildlife Safari. Legend: (B) Breakfast, (L) Lunch, (D) Dinner
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Extractions: Kings, queens, and princes, wild beasts and exotic birds Shawn and I have traveled to the land of fairytales! Swaziland, the smallest country in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the few absolute monarchies left in the world, is definitely magical. When the people speak, it is as if they are singing. Their native language, Siswati, is quick and bouncing, like a gazelle or a hip-hop song. But when they speak English, which most do, it is slower and more melodic. The words they choose in English are like poetry, a small indication of the richness of their language to non-Siswati speakers like me. For example, today I asked a man on the street for directions to the Post Office. His reply went something like this: "You move straight, do not turn, until you reach the place where the water bubbles up from the ground. Then you will move left, down the hill." I wandered off smiling, entertained by visions of a mountain spring here in the middle of the city of
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Extractions: History In eastern Swaziland archaeologists have discovered human remains dating back 110,000 years, but the Swazi people arrived only relatively recently. During the great Bantu migration into southern Africa, one clan of the Nguni, moving down the east coast, settled around modern Maputo in Mozambique. Eventually the Dlamini family founded a dynasty there, but by the middle of the 18th century, pressure from the other clans forced a Dlamini king, Ngwane III, to lead his people south to what is now southern Swaziland, around the Pongola River. The Swazi now consider Ngwane III to be their first king. Under pressure from the Zulu, the next king, Sobhuza I, withdrew to the Ezulwini Valley, which remains the center of Swazi royalty and rituals today. King Mswazi, who ascended the throne next, was a gifted warrior and diplomat, and by the time he cashed his chips in 1868 the Swazi nation was secure. The Zulus frequently clashed with the British and the Boers, which relieved pressure on the Swazis but created other problems. Swaziland attracted a ragtag bunch of great white hunters, inconsequential traders, fervent missionaries and land hungry farmers looking to feed their cattle. The kingdom's land was being gobbled up in leases granted to the Europeans, but in 1877 the British decided to run the place along their own lines and they annexed it lock, stock and barrel. The Swaziland Convention of 1881 guaranteed the nation's independence on paper, while considerably contracting its borders, and 'independence' proved to be just a word. In practice the Brits and Boers pursued their own interests with chaotic results, and after the Boer War the victors took over the reigns of power. Swaziland joined the long list of countries administered by London.
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Extractions: Swazis have always taken pride in their nations preservation of traditional life, from the small matters of daily living to national governance by sub-Saharan Africas only king to rule a country. There is good reason for such pride. Other African people may lament that their traditions, languages and way of life face extinction in the face of modernity, but Swazis have always taken comfort in a cultural conservation that makes them almost unique on a changing continent. This is the flip side to news stories of political controversy that appear with increasing frequency out of this small nation, where less than one million people live. The landlocked kingdom has a long memory, and leadership is pursuing a land-return programme to obtain areas given by 19th century colonial British authorities to South Africa. If successful, the monarchy would extend to the Indian Ocean, over what is now Kwa Zulu Natal. "That will never happen, because those people of South Africa would never go back to become subjects of the monarch after living a decade as citizens of a democracy," political activist Obed Dlamini told Africanews. Dlamini, a former prime minister who shocked the royal family of which he is a member by becoming the president of a banned political party, the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress, feels the days of traditional leadership are finished.
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Extractions: Options Page Horseback Safari, Inkwenkwezi Game Reserve The Garden Route Essence of Africa ... Additional horseback tours/safaris For booking or more information on any of these tours, email: barbara@connect-southafrica.com TOURS Horseback safaris in Inkwenkwezi Game Reserve, Eastern Cape (7 day/6 night) - Schedule Tour (Code AS1.) see additional horseback tours/safaris Please ask for current rates Day One. Your safari starts the minute you leave East London Airport. Travel by vehicle through African villages, home of the Xhosa People. On arrival at the Game Reserve, you will be welcomed with refreshments, and given time to settle into your accommodation. You will be introduced to your horses and taken out for a short ride to become aquatinted with your mounts. This ride will take you up the hill behind the Safari camp, where we are likely to see herds of Red Hartebeest, steenbok, duiker and warthog. We will ride past a waterhole where we will water the horses before descending down a kloof into a riverbed where we are likely to see Kudu, Baboon and the elusive shy Bushbuck. We return back to the safari camp as the sun is setting. Meet for sundowners at the boma around a huge roaring log fire under the African skies. Day Two.
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Extractions: Misanet.com / IPS, 12 March - They are ubiquitous social and entertainment events, featured in virtually every non-Muslim African nation, and some nations where Muslim culture predominates: beauty pageants that display the talents and pulchritude of a nation's choicest young women, and in some cases men. - The goal is to find a candidate for the Miss World competition, so there is much national pride involved, says Vinah Mamba, long-time organiser of pageants in Swaziland. Mamba puts on the annual Miss Swaziland and Junior Miss Swaziland competitions, the latter for teenage girls that are primarily for local entertainment.
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Extractions: Africa can be divided into two cultural regions, North Africa and Africa South of the Sahara (for a list of which African countries are in which region, click here ). Use the following links to take you to both the Library's resources on these regions and to links to web sites that deal with African culture: General AfricaLibrary Resources and Links North AfricaLibrary Resources and Links Africa South of the SaharaLibrary Resources and Links General AfricaLibrary Resources The following is just a representative sampling of the International Center Library's materials on Africa. If you have any questions about our other resources, please email the Library Africa ed. by Phyllis Martin and Patrick O'Meara, 1995. Essays on everything from African history to African music to popular culture in urban Africa. Africa: A Continent Revealed by Rene Gordon, 1981. Hundreds of color photographs of Africa and Africans. The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson, 1992. A discussion of Africa's political instability in its historical context from one of the continent's most respected historians.
