Namibia

Introduction: Namibia is small flourishing country located in the south west of Africa. Its surrounding neighbors are Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and the South Atlantic Sea. The country is very young, and was recently liberated from foreign and South African rule, and was formerly known as South West Africa. Compared to all of its neighbors Namibia has an extremely low unemployment rate of 5.3%, and a GDP per capita of 7,500 USD. Even though the country appears to have a high per capita GDP

The first RTA I chose to discuss is a Non-Reciprocal Trade Arrangement called Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). USTR.gov states, “In 2013, U.S. goods imports from sub-Saharan African under AGOA and the related GSP program totaled $26.8 billion, more than three times the amount in 2001, the first full-year of AGOA trade.” There are challenges for this agreement as the site later states, “Exports of U.S. poultry have been effectively excluded from the South African market for 15 years due to

This table portrays the different face on calculating poverty in Namibia but without doubt, it strikes with more energy the rural homes. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2008, poverty was chiefly spread between homes were English nor German were spoken (around 55 percent of those households) While English and German speaking homes were almost unaffected by poverty. This in terms of sheer consumption means that the poorest sector of the Namibian society only accounts for the 1 percent

whoever is reading didn’t know. Starting off with South Africa, one of the major geologic features in this country is the Kalahari Desert. The desert formed about 60 million years ago along with the African continent and covers most of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The name of the desert name descends from the word Kgala meaning a “waterless place”. The Kalahari has very hot weather and can get up to 40 degrees Celsius in the summer and in the winter it can get dry and cold reaching a temperature

In the twentieth century alone, the world has witnessed oppression in many places, like the South African apartheid, which literally means “apartness” (Omond 11). Nadine Gordimer, an esteemed author and South African native, has lived to see the injustice and conflict her country has experienced during apartheid rule, which lasted just under a half-century. Most of her literary work throughout the decades of apartheid oppression united under the banner of freedom for the victims of apartheid. Her

Language is a system of representation that enables us to encode and convey meaning through the production and combination of signs. (Neves, 2011) Multilingualism can, therefore, be described as a person’s capability to maintain and practice two or more languages in an environment. This concept is quite commonly seen throughout South Africa as there is a total of eleven official languages. These languages are critical in today’s youth as they are exposed to a culturally diverse society which enables

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, commenced in order for South Africans to be able to talk about their experiences during apartheid as well as testimonies to the public ("For all voices, for all victims" by Antjie Krog, 2013). The main aim of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission were the hearings, which acted as an indication to democracy and transition. In her poem, “For all voices, for all victims,” Antjie Krog, made use of this poem as a response the occurrences of the apartheid era

In her poem ‘For All Voices, For All Victims,’ Antjie Krog expresses her conflicted feelings towards the past in general and the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in particular. The TRC was created by the newly elected Democratic Party to look at the details of the human violations that took place during the Apartheid era. The TRC did not only focus on the people who were violated during the Apartheid era but also looked at the people who designed, encourage and practice the

INTRODUCTION The word 'xenophobia' is one that describes violent actions against foreigners, as well as negative social representations of immigrants, refugees and migrants. (Harris, 2002). By dictionary definition, the term 'xenophobia' is defined as a 'hatred or fear of foreigners' (South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 1994). Xenophobia’s first appearance on South African record was in May 2008. Migrants were murdered, women and children attacked and raped, and their houses

Bushmen, are one of the most highly researched groups by anthropologists. The !Kung San have an interesting lifestyle due to the hostile environment that the Kalahari Desert offers. The !Kung San people inhabit Southern Africa, usually in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Angola. The !Kung San are nomadic people. In other words, they move from one place to another, instead of living in one place! Kung San do not associate themselves with the modern world. The! Kung people live a