Africa Is A Continent

I stay in AFRICA and it is a CONTINENT.

.South Africa is a small country at the end of this huge melting pot of cultures and traditions and lovely food and different weaves .

No change in the core values that Parents teach their kids in any part of the world..Love,Respect and Dignity .

There are huge problems between the Tsotsis ,the have nots; and those who are making an honest living,same as any other part of the World ..

Christmas is a time when everyone wants to be the best provider for the family and the Malls show a side of extreme opulence ..and all those maxxing the Credit Card leads to a very poor January where people revisit malls to return stuff they bought beforehand ..

We as a community fight our battles together and the intrinsic learning's we teach our kids to respect everyone ,kindness and no discrimination .Judging tends to be an older characteristic that are taught to kids as they grow ..

"People who are fighting or faultfinding with others are always inherently at war with themselves ".No peace here ,Heh.

Hooting and overtaking leads to road rage ,and we stop at every red light even if we are the lone ones.Jackaroos mann our traffic signals when there is a power cut ,but we wait patiently for their command,knowing fully well insurance wil not pay if any damage happens .

.Revving of super Carr's or super Bikes very early morning is as common as late night music coming from the Pubs far away Sound carries purely here.

Our weekends are spend,as growing time for family , attending gatherings ,cleaning house,preparing for the week ahead .Parents hold two jobs ,the second being after school activities that are extremely competitive ..

Also the chaperoning of the kids to various places with their friends needs serious planning ,be it hooman or furbabies ..

The municipality is indecisive and bickering ,but buyers in suburbs pay high for real estate .The politicians are growing richer by the minute ,and remain invincible ..

We still have Clean air and can drink right off our taps ..Ahem,true friend ;adding our famous wine and beer with water ... we look for 20 years old ones and can smell and identify the type of barrel it was stored in ..

The home is not very dusty ,dirty paws on white floors are loved and welcomed ..

A friends or a neighbours visit without their furbabies or hooman kids are unimaginable ,and a cup of Coffee can spread to dinner for all .Standing outside the gate and talking while other neighbours joining in are very common too .

Our WAP group buzzes with a look out for the furbabies ,gardeners,pool cleaners or domestics .Even Choosing Service providers ,vegetable barter , or buying and selling from clothes to furniture's happen right there ..

The elders know how long our kids are loose in our community ,and we too know their health at all times ..And we listen and keep asking them for parenting advice ..Some of them can just hug you and understand You are granted permission to be a child in their presence ,always .

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A political convict is a topic of discussion for months on end ,like the Grosvenor road one happening right now .It took 15 years by the way to catch this one ..

Our conscience are Ndovlu Choir, JesseClegg,Black Coffee ,and of course Devi ...A photo shoot under the Jacaranda blooms every year is a must. ..

Gardening and growing food at home is as common as all the animals and birds and insects that fill our gardens .Google lens over drive always ...and then sharing the photos .

We still love to spend our evenings sitting outside to BRAAI or dipping in pools in the darkness of night ..Spending quality time with our partners is sacrosanct and we cancel or reschedule appointments around dates with our significant others ... .

Dancing in the Rain is not only for the kids,the Child in Us always remains Alive ..

That is AFRICA, the place that changes every few KM and where our Heart still remains in the Township's and Remote Villages and our Own Hometowns where the Domestics and Gardeners still look forward to retire during December ,as do We ..

Wakanda is our Dream ..and trying to turn it into a reality ..Black Panther is a motivation movie ..

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The Ruzizi River of Burundi is the haunt of the infamous Gustave.,the biggest Nile crocodile .

Benin is no place for Left Handers,bad etiquette to use left Hand for shaking or eating there .

Last year in January, the Algerian Sahara experienced snowfall, something that has only happened to the world’s largest hot desert 3 times in the past 40 years.

Botswana is home to the Okavango Delta, the largest inland delta in the world.

The country of Burkina Faso is one of the richest in art and culture in Africa.

Cameroon is the primary home of the aptly named goliath frog, the largest frog in the world.

Comoros is home to the main population of West Indian coelacanths.

The lake of Lac Assal, Djibouti, is the second-saltiest water body in the world, after a pond in Antarctica.

Some say Ethiopia was never colonized by Europeans.

The Akan people of Ghana often name their children after the day of the week they were born on.

Despite being rather small for a country , roughly a quarter of all the known bauxite in the world is found in Guinea.

The region of Kenya is nicknamed the “Cradle of Humanity”.

Lesotho is often referred to as the Kingdom of the Sky.

Liberia was founded and created exclusively for the purpose of being a place where freed African-American slaves could migrate to and live.

Lake Malawi is Africa’s third largest and second deepest lake, and has more fish species than any lake in the world, at an estimated 1,000.

Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery, which it only did in 1981. Despite this, it’s thought that there are still over 90,000 slaves still in Mauritania.

The Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Morocco, is the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world.

The Rwandan capital, Kigali, is hailed as Africa’s cleanest city. UN Calls it the world cleanest city .

As Africa’s smallest country in terms of both area and population, there are only six banks in

São Tomé and Principe

The world’s largest collection of megalithic structures is in Senegal - the Senegambian Stone Circles.

During its recent civil war, Sierra Leone was an infamous producer of blood diamonds - diamonds mined to fund war by RUF

Many South African beaches are home to colonies of African penguins, unique to SA and Namibia.

Despite the nation having abundant oil, most in South Sudan are crippled by poverty.

At 350, Sudan has well over twice as many pyramids as Egypt does - only its were not built by the ancient Egyptians. Rather, they were the work of Nubia, an early African civilization which had mixed relations with Egypt.

Matmata is a town in southern Tunisia where the local Berbers build underground dwellings to take refuge from the blazing sun. The houses consist of large pits with artificial caves around the perimeter.

Roughly one quarter of Uganda’s area is taken up by lakes and rivers - the highest ratio of any country .

Zambia’s Lake Kariba is the largest man-made lake in the world, at 5,580 square kilometres..

Info courtesy Google .