https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf 1. Research one of the topics below. 2. Find an interesting fact to share. 3. Find a picture that goes with the fact. 4. Post both of them to the class Padlet. Topic Choices: apartheid, Nelson Mandela, African National Congress, South Africa, Langa, Xhosa Tribe en-us 2019-01-10 12:31:44 UTC 2022-12-07 15:47:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 00027286 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412354671 He was the first black president of South Africa, and the first president to be elected in a fully representative election]]> 2022-12-07 15:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412354671 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412356523 Apartheid enforced discrimination and segregation against people of color]]> 2022-12-07 15:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412356523 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412356616 The Republic of South Africa occupies the southernmost tip of the African continent. Foreign powers have sought to control its vast natural resources since the seventeenth century. Until the 1990s, the country was ruled by a White minority that upheld a strict policy of apartheid, or racial segregation. Since the peaceful transition to Black majority rule, the government has pursued social and economic policies designed to overcome the country’s legacy of inequality and exploitation. Though violent crime, unemployment, and unequal opportunity remain widespread, progress has been made toward building a multiracial, egalitarian society.]]> 2022-12-07 15:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412356616 00071530 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412359615 The Republic of South Africa occupies the southernmost tip of the African continent. Foreign powers have sought to control its vast natural resources since the seventeenth century. Until the 1990s, the country was ruled by a White minority that upheld a strict policy of apartheid, or racial segregation. Since the peaceful transition to Black majority rule, the government has pursued social and economic policies designed to overcome the country’s legacy of inequality and exploitation. Though violent crime, unemployment, and unequal opportunity remain widespread, progress has been made toward building a multiracial, egalitarian society.]]> 2022-12-07 15:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412359615 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412364640 The Xhosa people were known as hunters and herders and are the second largest cultural group in South Africa after the Zulu.]]> 2022-12-07 15:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412364640 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412365752 On December 5, 2013, former South African President Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95. People around the world mourned the death of this human rights activist. Thousands of South Africans waited hours to walk past]]> 2022-12-07 15:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412365752 00058385 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412365965 2022-12-07 15:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412365965 00092243 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412370155 The Xhosa people were known as hunters and herders and are the second largest cultural group in South Africa after the Zulu.]]> 2022-12-07 15:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412370155 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412372315 nelson mandela devoted his life to humanity and surved as a prisoner for almost 30 years, he also was a international peace mmaker and was first democrocratically elected president to free south africa, Nelson Mandela also improved living standerds and facilities in south africa, he also suffred for decades under aparthied, also he worked to make south africa a country of equality and where people of all race to live together in peace, he is rembered for succesfully leading the resitance to south africa's policy of apartheid in the 20th cenetry ]]> 2022-12-07 15:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412372315 https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412501922 The article focuses on the Joachim Van Plettenberg Agreement on October 17, 1778 in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.]]> 2022-12-07 15:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jcarroll2/gmg37amvquqf/wish/2412501922