IDIS W12 - South Africa Interim

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Blog Update (and Day 16)

Hi All,

I hope you have enjoyed the recent update to the blog. Sadly I wasn’t able to get all the pictures up I wanted to (including some additional ones from past days) but it provides a great update on our interim.

We are going to the rural village of Kgautswane for two days followed by Kruger National Park so we likely won’t be able to update for a while. Hopefully we can do one or two more posts before the return flight.

Today we went to the Anglo Platinum mine which was an incredible experience. The full entry for today hasn’t been written yet but here are some “teaser” pictures.

-Scott Admiraal

About

This course introduces students to a country with a tragic past but also a promising future. The primary academic objective of this Interim is to gain firsthand knowledge and understanding of how racial injustice has been encountered in political and industrial contexts. Participants in this Interim will not only read and study South African history, culture, and industrial change -they will also experience South African townships, meet with political leaders from a variety of political parties, and visit gold mines. Students will explore - in readings, classes, and visits - South Africa's apartheid past, the struggles for and painful miracle of its democratic transition, and the political-economy of the mining industry where interactions of politics, business, and race are poignant.

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Most recent entries

• Day 23 Thanks Everyone
• Day 22 Goodbye South Africa
• Day 21 Kruger, Worship, Emerald
• Day 20 Wildlife Up Close
• Day 19 Kgautswane & Kruger
• Day 19 A Day in the Life of Mark
• Day 18 Kgautswane Tour
• Day 17 To Kgautswane
• Day 16 Anglo Platinum Mine
• Blog Update (and Day 16)
• Day 15 Johannesburg and Soweto
• Day 14 Worship and Pretoria
• Day 13 - Apartheid Museum and Market Theatre
• Day 12 To Jo-burg
• Day 11 IJR and Green Market Square