Letters from South Africa by Ken

Hi everyone back at Marshall High

Ken is moved to South Africa, because of his father’s work. He actually likes South Africa, because there is summer all the time. He tells about Cape Town. A day where his father had a day of, they went to Kruger Park. Ken really liked it. They went on a safari and they saw a lot of animals. Ken tells also about schools. In South Africa is there still “white schools” and “black schools”. He tells about the rules and how it’s at his school.

Hi again!

In this Letter Ken tells about Apartheid and discrimination. South Africa was unsafe place to be. South Africa couldn’t be a part of the Olympic Games; South Africa was cut out by the rest of the world. It became harder and harder to sell South Africans goods to other countries. In 1994 saw the birth a new South Africa with equal rights for all the citizens and with Nelson Mandela as the president. South Africa was a good example that things can change for the better.

Hello back home!

In this third letter, Ken tells about the first diamond. It was found by a man called Erasmus Jacobs. He wouldn’t sell the stone; he didn’t want to be paid for an old stone. The first diamond is kept in the parliament building in Cape Town. A few years ago, herdsman found a shiny stone. He sold the stone for 500 sheep’s, ten oxen and a horse for it. The new owner of the stone took it to Cape Town, were he got £ 11.300 for it. That diamond is known as the Star of South Africa. The Star of South Africa belongs to the queen of England and it can see it, in the Tower of London. Ken tells that today thousands of people work in the mines to find diamonds, but there are serious problems. Example with the security.