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Check this site for videos from tons of South African artists. Some are older and a lot are recent, popular and worth checking out for your own ears!

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Good Life -- 1 Dile ft. Khuli Chana

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Hlonolofatsa -- Bojo Mujo

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Party Time -- JOZI

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SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability means that things can keep going, can sustain themselves, can continue into the future and go on forever. From a human perspective sustainability for our planet means that it can continue to do what it was designed to do: provide fresh air, clean water, produce food, and allow us all to have a high quality of life forever.

Unsustainability means that it cannot, and that is where we are now.

20 years ago, scientists form Sweden developed a definition for sustainability with Four basic principles. These can be seen as the care instructions for our planet. If we follow them, it is good for our planet and because we are a part of the system that is our planet, it is good for us too. the care instructions are as follows:

Reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and heavy metals  

Reduce our dependence on synthetic chemicals that persist in nature 

Reduce our destruction of nature 

Ensure that we are not stopping people from meeting their needs

Demand for the Earth’s services: clean air, water and food, increases as the population increases and living standards rise. But the Earth’s ability to provide these services is declining because of the way we are living. In our search for prosperity, growth and success we are destroying the system that we as humans are completely dependent upon: Nature. We humans have become a threat to our own way of life.

The Earth is a system and everything is connected: society, environment and economy. To live sustainably, we need to follow the four care instructions and apply them to everything we do at home and at work. If we can follow these care instructions, we can work together to be sustainable. We will all have a better quality of life, we’ll waste less, we’ll pollute less, and we’ll create more things we value in society while improving our planet’s chances of providing us with the very things we need to survive.

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Shosholoza and the Gumboot Dance (Cape Town)

Shosholoza is traditionally a migrant miner's song that originated in Zimbabwe, but became so popular in South African folk singing that it is known as South Africa's second national anthem.

Singing in Solidarity (according to The Winds of Change www.africancreammusic.co.za )

Ngithi Shosholoza... Kulezontaba... Stimela siphum'emZantsi Afrika

Push, push, pushing on & on There's much to be done... We will push as one...

Shosholoza means push forward or make a great effort. The message unites people in times of hardship and represents solidarity and support in times of struggle.

The song is a reminder of the hardships endured by migrant mining workers and the idea that South Africa is making progress despite difficult struggles in the process.

The Gumboot Dance

When drumming was outlawed, miners used their "gumboots" to create rhythms and steps. Today gumboot dancing is popular among groups like Oxyde (seen in the viedo) which uses a gumboot dance to accompany a capella singing.

Popular Versions of Shosholoza

Sacre (in my opinion, this is the epic version, A Taste of Africa)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo (The World In Union)

Soweto Gospel Choir (African Spirit)

ACFC (Winds of Change compilation)

Peter Gabriel

Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie (INVICTUS soundtrack)

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Waste 2 Wow-South Africa

Waste Management to Green Business Model

Re-purposing and Recycling

Job creation

Business Management & Marketing Skills

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Towards a green economy: The Something out of Nothing Project, South Africa

Middelburg, Mpumalanga province, South Africa

Waste Management

Recycling, Re-Purposing Waste into Arts Crafts and Goods

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Abdullah Ibrahim - Mannenberg

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Food Gardens in South Africa

Methods and Resources at

http://www.cityfarmer.org/s.africa.html

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Working for Water:

Planting trees for Carbon and Water- Spekboom in South Africa

More to come on Working for Water, a government organization that focuses on employing the people to address the issue of invasive species.

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Desmond Tutu on the Power of Forgiveness

Despite all appearances to the contrary, it is a moral universe. In the end, good prevails.

Segregation was a key aspect of our lives. You knew that some who were in and the others were out. You had these separate exits but then you went on to the same street and you breathed the same air. IT was crazy but a lot of it was humiliating.

You were human but you were not quite as human as the others.

We say no to evil! We say yes to goodness! -Desmond Tutu

Very many good things have happened, I mean one: we are free.

It was quite unbelievable how quickly it happened, like Grease Lightening. I mean, one day Nelson Mandela is in jail, the next he is out. The next we have negotiations. And hey presto we have a democracy

I and the ANC are as opposed to black domination as we are to white domination. -Nelson Mandela

Imagine if we had chosen the path of retribution and revenge. Our country would have been dust and ashes now.

When you nurse a grudge, your blood pressure  goes up and you feel it in you tum tum. Whereas when you forgive, your blood pressure goes down and you have a physical well-being that reflects your spiritual well-being. So it's good for your health!

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Desmond Tutu on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

explains the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

helps explain why forgiveness was the key to the TRC

Nelson Mandela asked him to lead the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It heard from the victims of apartheid and heard the stories of the victims, which was an enourmously emotional process.

Desmond Tutu knew that without confronting the past, South Africa could not move forward and he wanted to hear from all those affected by apartheid. He was very keen to hear the stories of the little people... stories of people in small towns in far away places that had been ignored for so long.

There were close on 22,000 statements made to us in those years. - Mary Burton

It was often very heartbreaking, the sheer magnitude of the stories, that so many peope had been ignored for so long.

Despite the fact that terrible crimes were being recalled, forgiveness was central to the Commission's aims. The ____  for this commission is opening wounds, cleansing them so that they do not fester and saying we have dealt with our past as effectively as we could. We have not denied it. We have looked the beast in the eye.

Even if you do it once, you have to keep on and on forgiving. Forgiveness is not easy.

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The inauguration of Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa in the first fully democratic elections in the nation.

I Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela do hereby swear to be faithful to the Republic of South Africa.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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Announcement that Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa.

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Rad version of Hugh Masekela -- Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)

"I want to see him walking hand in hand with Winnie Mandela"

1987

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More favorites.

Township R&B, Funk and Psychedelic Sounds, 1969-1976.