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Animal Health Promotion
The Mdukatshani Rural Development Project in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has been providing farmer support and training for more than 50 years. Children and young people play an important role in livestock care and Mdukatshani has developed programmes to facilitate their involvement. These started with story-telling to enable children to document their knowledge, ideas and experiences of caring for chicken, goats and cows. Over several years, bi-lingual (English and Zulu) illustrated books were co-created with the children to share these stories. The books are used in several schools in Animal Health Promotion Clubs. They support a range of learning outcomes and affirm children’s expertise in agriculture . …
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Siyaphi – where are we going?
‘We lost homes… We lost graves… We lost our harvest… We lost grazing land… We lost ourselves.’ Limehill residents recalling the forced removals of 1968 Imagine being 11 years old and going home from school on Friday, repeating over in your head the message that you must give your mother: ‘Ma, the teacher says on Monday we must be … This 2018 publication was the product of research to revisit the impact of apartheid forced removals on a community that won back their land but have not recovered the livelihoods or the identity they lost 50 years ago. The research was a partnership between a university and the community of…
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Mdukatshani
Dust gilded on a bone-dry wind Laughter lifted, echoing along the cliffs to collide with the call of a hammerkop Flamadiddle of footsteps, bouncing off the blazing stone bed of the Tugela Sun shimmering the darting shapes of children and dogs, scampering to a White-glinting wink of water Effortless energy of light, sound and dance Face shadowed beneath a pail Footfall silenced in the hungry soil, feeling a path between the red rocks to the grey bank Figure poised, pausing, scanning the remains of the river, shrunk and sucked by drought and draught Dipping, fills the bucket from the stream and, standing, turns Away to trace the daily route Wasting…
