Alive with Possibility - Facts about South Africa
We all agree that South Africa is an amazing country and certainly lives up to the slogan, Alive with possibility.
We found this really helpful article written in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup on South Africa The Good News, that puts all the infomration a visitor to South Africa would want to know in a nutshell, like "Who lives in South Africa?" and "What's the weather like?"
"There's more to Africa than lions. Johannesburg, a city of skyscrapers, sprawls wider than London or New York. The lights work, the water flows, there are multi-lane highways and - unfortunately - traffic jams. You can book into a Hilton or a Hyatt or a Holiday Inn and eat at cosmopolitan restaurants serving anything from sushi to burgers to crocodile steaks. Or you can lie back on a couch and choose from five analogue and over 50 digital TV channels."
Equal Education will be holding a 24 hr Fast for School Libraries. We call on everyone not to eat anything from 18:00 pm on Thursday 29 July until 18:00 pm on Friday 30 July to show government that our children deserve a quality education which includes libraries with books and a librarian!
"The issue is how to transform a grossly incompetent state at national, local and provincial level. If we say we want “more state”, how do we transform it and convince ourselves that it can deliver with any degree of competence? Citizens need to take ownership and ask of themselves: What are we doing as citizens to become agents of change? What are we doing to build the future that was envisioned at the dawn of our democracy?"
