Course 1(12-days 3 credits) starts in Cape Town and ends in the Drakensberg Mountains region. Course 2 (17-days 4 credits) starts in Cape Town includes the Drakensberg Mountains region and ends in Botswana. Site Description: Cape Town is home to one of the continents finest networks of museums and the cultural museum is where we start. Most of the rock paintings on display here were brought to the South African Museum between 1911 and 1918 through the efforts of the Director, Dr. L Peringuey and Mr G. S. Mandy of the Provincial Roads Department. They were determined to save this magnificent art from destruction by vandals and natural weathering. Many paintings which were clear some decades ago have almost disappeared in the meantime. The bushman or San paintings are one of the Drakensberg Mountains and South Africa's greatest cultural treasures. Some 20 000 individual rock paintings have been recorded at 500 different cave and overhang sites. Classes will visit 3-5 of these magnificent sites. The San used to roam all over Southern Africa until they were squeezed into extinction by the arrival of the Europeans to the South and the Bantu-speaking Africans from the East. Their decedents, the Bushmen, now live in Botswana and Namibia. The 17 day course includes a trip to Botswana and two San cultural villages where students will be able to participate in as well as view Bushman lifestyle and creativity. |
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