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The Wykeham Collegiate
Kwa-Zulu Natal |
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Sawubona from South Africa |
We are two black students from South Africa who would like to tell you about the Zulu
culture. Our names are Zanele and Mbali We live in
the province of Kwa- Zulu Natal in the city of
Pietermaritzburg. We go to school at The Wykeham
Collegiate and we are in std 4 (grade 6). We go to
an English school but at home we speak zulu.
The first thing in the zulu custom is the clothing. Men, women and children normally wear traditional clothes.
The men's traditional clothes are a bheshu made out of cow's skin with sandles which are called
imbadada. The bheshu goes around the waist of the man. Now we come to the womans clothing...
Well these are our customs and we are proud of them...
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| FROM: |
Pinelands High School
Capetown |
| SUBJECT: |
South African Culture
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Hi, my name is Shanco, I attend Pinelands High School in Cape Town, South Africa the southern most point of Africa.
Many people think that we are still living in the stone age but they are wrong because if we were I would not be writing to you. We are quite modern and we live in normal houses and do normal things just like the rest of the
world not like the broad picture of Africa that many people see. I
think that we in South Africa are more modern than the other countries. There is still a bit of violence in South Africa as we have just come from our first democratic election. There are tribes who are holding onto their culture and such as the Zulu and the
Xhosa...
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Social Studies
