Educational Outreach
Software installations at Transkei schools
South Africa
December 2009
Background
Mishwell and I installed Learnthings and MS Encarta software, on behalf of Learnthings Africa at poor rural schools across the Transkei.
We drove with my red Toyota Corolla across the Transkei, going off-road at times where off-roaders dare not go, to reach places very few South Africans or tourists get to see.
Here are some photo highlights that will attempt to sketch a picture of this still largely undiscovered jewel in the crown of South Africa.
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| Transkei |
About Transkei
The Transkei (meaning the area beyond [the river] Kei), officially the Republic of Transkei, was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and nominal parliamentary democracy in the south-eastern region of South Africa.
Its capital was Umtata, which was renamed Mthatha in 2004.
Transkei represented a significant precedent and historic turning point in South Africa's policy of apartheid and "separate development"; it was the first of four territories to be declared independent of South Africa.
Throughout its existence, it remained an internationally unrecognized, diplomatically isolated, politically unstable de facto one-party state, which at one point broke relations with South Africa, the only country that acknowledged it as a legal entity.
In 1994, it was reintegrated into its larger neighbor and became part of the Eastern Cape Province.
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| Grazing sheep in remote mountains - Transkei |
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| Mountain Huts |
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| Mountain scenery |
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| 'Bush Taxi' |
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| Kids playing next to an 'outhouse' (toilet) |
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| Public phone - Transkei mountains |
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| African toilets |
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| Old farmhouse |
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| Transkei hut |
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| A Rural house next to the road - Mt Ayliff |
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| Transkei hair salon - Mt Ayliff |
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| Rural Baby-Sitter |
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| African dog |
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| Rural scene |
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| Sheepherder & rainbow - Qhobosheaneng Village |
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| Mishwell - Qhobosheaneng Village |
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| Maluti |
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| Dirt road - Transkei |
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| Rural scenery - Transkei |
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| Maluti |
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| Church on a hill - Maluti |
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| Polile Tshisa |
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