Week 7

I found Sarah's article on education in South Africa very interesting:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21528586.2014.887917

Other articles I found interesting were Hashem's article about foreign business in the country (which parallels some issues we see here in America as well), and Trisha's article about the bi-racial twins in the UK (one black and one white); I've been seeing many articles in the news about this type of stuff lately, and as always, they seem to reiterate the fact that race is imaginary. 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-businesses-face-backlash-in-south-africa-1425514688 

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8135489/black-white-twins-race 

Week 6

Here is an article I found about "Cape Coloureds," who are mixed races. Not really black, but not white either. They're usually the product of European men breeding with women of different ethnicities.  This article goes in depth about the different types of coloured people, where they originated from, details about "mixed ancestry" people, etc.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2009/06/who-are-the-cape-coloureds-of-south-africa/#.VRm1CvmPF8E

This article explains why the rates of violent crime in South Africa are so "disturbingly high," using historical evidence and statistics from the last 12 months.
http://www.news24.com/Columnists/GuestColumn/Why-is-crime-and-violence-so-high-in-South-Africa-20140918

I was also interested in women's rights in South Africa. After reading this article, I saw many similarities between women's rights movements in the United States compared to in South Africa. This timeline shows the progression of women's rights beginning with Charlotte Maxeke (first south African black woman to get a bachelor's degree) in 1905 and ends with the women's movement in 2006.
http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/womens-struggle-timeline-1905-2006