Hola MaHigh-School - November 2019

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Editor’s Letter

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Contributors

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Holler at us

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Holidays!

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Activities!

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What to do.., and where

All through the country

Month of December 20 What to do

Namibia is am option

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Early climate disasters 28 Ocean gardens

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Greta is not alone!

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Movies!!

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We need writers

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Next Issue

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Poem of the month

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Growing food underwater

Sybil Otterstrom Editor and CEO

This is it for 2019. I hope you have enjoyed the magazine this year.

This last issue has got a few things on what to do during school holidays.

Of course we can go to the game reserve and see a lion, but we can do so much more. That is what we have tried to describe.

Climate change is reality and Greta is not the only one. That is where we have a few inspirational articles. Youth can do it!

Only thing left: Have a blessed festive season, look after yourself and see you all back here in January!

Good read!

Sybil

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Meet our contributors Masiziba Hadebe is a final year Agricultural Economics student at the University of the Free State (UFS). She is driven to make a change and is a passionate volunteer for community projects. She loves reading and writing about science, agriculture and anything in between. She believes you can wear a smile whatever the weather!

My name is Marcia Ramodike a 22 year young lady from Limpopo Tzaneen at lenyenye.

Besides being a student at the university of the free state i am also an author. I am passionate about writing and i live to give hope and wish to change the world. I love reading and in most of my time i write my favourite book is ‘Her Mothers Hope by Francine Rivers and favourite quote is when the caterpillar thought it was the end of the world it turned into a butterfly Lesly Malose Mahapa is a singer/writer/poet. He started writing at the age of 14 and has since been on a journey to pursue his music and writing career.

Lesly is currently working with an indie group ‘MozSouth’ based in Ivory park, Midrand. Lesly is also a brand ambassador for a local clothing line “Boi Boi apparel”

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What to do? holidays

Summer holidays! Recharging and lazing around, doing nothing. Or it could be different?

We have tried to find a few destinations and activities that could be fun. Some of it – well, those are real ‘tourist things’ but maybe worth it. Beware: there are costs to those, but hey – sky diving? Adrenaline-junkies: are you there?

On the other hand, there are also things like unique horse-riding holidays. This is where one will get close to nature and to the horses and having a unique experience.

There are many things to do, besides just go and see something new. A holiday that is also meaningful could be the experience for life. Time is now for such things.

Of course we also look at wildlife and conservation programmes. We might have a chance to experience something else ‘out there’, while there still is an ‘out there’.

Remember: nature is fragile and we have to do something before it is all gone.

SanParks offers something completely different. Honorary Junior Ranger! … but that is life-long commitment, like what Greta has.

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Durban Skydive Centre offers First Jump Courses, Display Jumps and Tandem Skydives.

Ever thought of being a volunteer? Here is an idea:

Have you always wanted to get hands-on experience working with big cats ing the freedom and time off to relax on your holiday and explore South Af Then come on a Working Holiday at Cheetah Experience!

You’ll be working with a number of endangered and threatened species on basis, including cheetahs, leopards, male non-breeding lions, servals, caraca wildcats, wolves, meerkats and a Siberian tiger. Our project takes in rescued from the local area, so we also have various animals from time to time, inclu and antelope.

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Very differ Fancy working with horses?

https://africandreamhorsesafari.co.za/ Our mission at African Dream Horse Safari is to show all who join us a fun and exciting way to work with and learn about both, horses and the wildlife of South Africa.

The programmes welcome holiday makers and interns who would like to spend their time with us living their ultimate African Dream.

Whether it be horse trails through the bush, improving horse riding skills during jumping and flat work lessons in the arena, game drives in the Big 5 nature reserve, making a difference on outreach or exploring the surrounding area on one of the many excursions, African Dream is the place for you.

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Junior Honorary Rangers National Project

The SANParks Junior Honorary Rangers National Project coordinates and manages the standard of Junior Honorary Ranger activities and training courses offered by the regions.

Junior Honorary Rangers are typically high school children who have an interest in conservation. The activities and courses, which are interactive, are generally held outside of the national parks, although the Junior Honorary Rangers may visit the national parks as part of their annual curriculum. The curriculum is offered in five-phases over five years.

The aims of the Junior Honorary Rangers National Project are to: • • • •

Instill a love for and knowledge of nature and conservation Support SANParks Have a succession plan for the SANParks Honorary Rangers Encourage Junior Honorary Rangers to remain involved in conservation and support SANParks after they have left school

In order for a Junior Honorary Ranger to become an Honorary Ranger, he/she must have attended Junior Honorary Rangers not less than an average of 80% over three years and must pass the compulsory SANParks Honorary Ranger course.

Telephone: 012 426 5000 https://www.sanparksvolunteers. org/junior-honorary-rangers-national-project/

“H20 Today” Exhibition at Sci-Bono H2O Today explores the beauty and essential nature of water, the planet’s lifeblood. The exhibit is on display at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre until April 2020.

The exhibition, organised by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), examines the diversity and challenges of water sources worldwide and promotes conversation, creativity and innovation through art, science and technology.

H2O Today is part of the Smithsonian’s #ThinkWater Initiative to raise awareness of water as a critical resource for life. Using immersive content, interactive activities, and digital media, this international exhibition – supplemented with Iziko curated African content and collections objects – brings a global conversation at a critical time within the Southern African regional context.

H2O Today dives into what it means to live on a planet where 71 percent of the surface is covered in water, of which less than 3 percent is drinkable. The exhibition highlights water’s criticality in daily life worldwide through waterpower, industry, agriculture and home use.

It explores the science of water from the hydrological cycle, weather and climate to its physical power as an architect and sculptor of landscape. The exhibition showcases global examples and striking imagery augmented with audiovisual material that tells the story of Earth as the water planet, water as our home, ways that water shapes culture, rising tides and sea level rise, and innovative solutions to some of the planet’s greatest water challenges.

The exhibition also features several firsts for the Smithsonian initiatives with an art jamming section entitled h2Art and a troupe of Actors, from the Market Theatre Laboratory.

With the growing concern about the water crisis and droughts experienced in parts of South Africa, the H2O exhibition couldn’t have arrived at Sci-Bono at a better time. As a benefit of this precise timing, this exhibition will teach learners and the public about strategies of preserving water in new and exciting ways. Sci-Bono invites everyone to visit the centre and take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity to engage with and immerse themselves.

The centre is an ideal family destination on weekends with regular interactive H2O Today exhibition theatre shows on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:30 and 13:00.

For bookings, call 011 639 8400.

We do know it is also Christmas and New Year’s. But that we always write about.

Let us look at something else this year:

National Tango Day

Tango is of course from Argentina.

Among many famous tango composers is one outstanding person: Julio de Caro. Not only did he compose several classic pieces, but he formed parts of the genre.

Argentina honoured him by naming 11 December (his birthday) as ‘National Tango Day’ in his honour. … and tango is such a classic genre and dance that it is impossible to get away from – and who does not like to view or dance tango?

And let us not forget the most famous tango of them all:

Forty-seven Ronin day (from Wiki)

Here is something else: I have to admit it, I love a good Karate and Ninja movie.

It is an historical event in Japan. The 47 samurai became leaderless after their master was told to commit suicide (Seppuku). Their master had assaulted an official and that was a complete no-no; hence …

So, the 47 samurai planned the murder of the official as their revenge. The planning period was one year.

But the story does not end there. The consequence of killing the official was that they themselves would have to commit suicide. Which they then did.

The significance of the story is the display of sacrifice, loyalty towards the master, discipline, persistence and honour. These were the qualities that the Japanese culture revered and promoted. It did also impact on the honour-code during the subsequent wars.

It is a bit more complex as one school claimed that they should not have waited a whole year. Sure, proper planning would guarantee success, but that was not important. Honouring the master should compel them to attack immediately. That would have caused them to fail (most likely) and all to die in battle.

That would be the honourable thing to do.

Others claiming that success was the yard-stick, wherefore planning was OK. They would die anyway, so the difference would be the same. ‌ and that is still discussed to this day!

Namibia is surely a different part of the world. It offers a unique set of experiences. Beware however: there are costs to some of these things as well. https://www.discoverafrica.com/safaris/namibia/an-active-holiday-in-namibia/ We have found a few things from the above: If you’re after an active holiday in Namibia, you’re in for a mind-boggling array of choices: everything from hiking, mountain biking and sand boarding to river canoeing, ocean kayaking, mountain climbing, animal tracking and quad biking.

Trekking:

There are hiking trails all over the country but the most famous is the 85-kilometre, five-day hike in the Fish River Canyon, a route which is only open between May and September.

You’ll need to be self-sufficient for the hike, carrying your own sleeping gear and food and the terrain is tough going, so it’s not for the faint hearted.

A fantastic wildlife hike is the four-day Waterberg Hike in Waterberg Pleateau Park (which is open from April to November) where you can spot rare roan and sable antelope, as well as giraffe, kudu and hyena amongst the dramatic red sandstone cliffs of the park.

For an easier hiking option, there’s the Tok Tokkie Trail, three-day slackpacking trail in the NamibRand Nature Reserve, where the walking is easy and your luggage is transported for you to comfortable outdoor camps that are set up for you at the end of your walking day (complete with cold drinks, gourmet food and hot water for washing).

Canoeing:

Canoeing on the Orange River for a few days in southern Namibia is a perfect choice for a relaxing active holiday for the whole family. Several outfitters offer similar multi-day paddling trips which include guides and meals, meaning all you need to do is paddle, swim, and sleep under the stars.

And self-drive:

https://explore-namibia.com/ Explore Namibia offers organised self-drive holidays.

You can go on an adventure in a fully equipped vehicle of your own choice. We will arrange your accommodations in advance, whether you wish to stay in lodges and guesthouses, on campsites or both.

Namibia: more than the dunes. Windhoek by night

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So we think that it is only now we see climate change and natural disasters getting more frequent? Well, we have had a few in the past, and we need not go to the dying out of the dinosaur to see that.

How about the ‘year without a summer’? (Inspired by Wiki) The year is 1816. Europe is settled again. The Napoleonic Wars are over. Time to get back in and prosper.

Nature throws a curved ball. Indonesia, which Europe would hardly know of, has a volcanic eruption of severe magnitude. Mount Tambora erupts in 1815. Not only was it immensely violent, but it continued to spew ashes for months on end.

It decreased the average temperature with less than one degree as the ash in the atmosphere blocked sunlight.

Sounds boring? In areas where agriculture was problematic to begin with, frost lingered for longer (until June) and killed off most crops in Northern USA. Europe experienced lower temperatures and heavy rains. This caused a Europe-wide famine as crops in the likes of potatoes, wheat, barley etc failed.

It is estimated that Europe faced some

200,000 deaths due to famine and diseases.

The ash in the atmosphere created some strange phenomena: The sky had a yellow tinge which probably inspired Turner in his paintings.

People migrated to better areas of USA and Europe, a pattern not seen since the early Roman empire. … and that was only one volcanic explosion.

And Africa?

Ever heard of AHP? Me neither – but it is the African Humid Period, in the earliest days of the Holocene (where temperatures turned Snowball Earth into a place where we could live). This is some 11,000 years ago, which is really recent – geological speaking.

Now we need to be very scientific: The Earth sort of wobbles a bit in its orbit around the sun. It is a cycle of some 20,000 years. This change in wobble forces the monsoonal rains in Northern Africa further north and intensifies the rain fall.

Now we had lakes in Sahara and a fertile climate. Sahara and surroundings were GREEN. This triggered a population growth and also triggered the rock arts, paintings and a settled life in terms of agriculture and livestock.

Remember, Jericho was a city 10,000 years ago. And Egypt was a growing kingdom.

Alas, the desiccation de-populated Northern Africa into what we see today.

But look at one little thing: a slight change in climate triggers enormous changes in the cultural make-up.

m r a f n a e The oc We can plant on land, on gravel (soilless farming), your hydroponics and aquaponics, but the ocean; That is just extraordinary. So what is it all about?

With the water crisis looming we need to conserve potable water. But an ocean garden does not need to be watered after all, so there are attractive aspects to this.

We are also running out of arable land, so it all leads to one thought: we need a different approach to food security.

I am using kelp as an example of all the ocean garden options, and there are many plants we can utilise (surprise!)

Underwater farming or the ocean garden is not new. However, it has been focused on growing high-value, niche crop. For instance, edible Kelp is a breath-taking organism. It may be considered to just be algae, but it gives ocean life a unique identity, and has become an icon of marine conservation.

The oldest kelp recipe known is for the Japanese “kombu”, which is made from Japanese local kelp species, most similar to South Africa’s split-fan kelp.

The demand of the ‘algae’ Kelp amongst consumers

is not going to be a challenge. According to nutritionists, kelp is often considered a ‘superfood’ due to its significant mineral content of iodine (important for optimal thyroid function and metabolism).

Kelps, in terms of ocean gardening, is a crop that requires planting and harvesting, just like any other plant, but with very little work in between. Moreover, it needs no fertilizing, no weed control, no watering, and it has very few ‘enemies’ in the form of pests or disease.

However, ‘planting’ is quite an unmerited term for the production of kelps.

Kelps can disappear and reappear based on the oceanographic conditions and the population sizes of their primary herbivores.

Did you know?

Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that grows in “underwater forests” (kelp forests) in shallow oceans, The organisms require nutrient-rich water with temperatures between 6 and 14 °C They are known for their high growth rate and can grow as fast as half a metre a day, ultimately reaching 30 to 80 metres Warmer than normal summers and seasonal changes to currents that bring fewer nutrients to kelp forests (both sometimes occurring naturally) combine to weaken kelps and threaten their survival.

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On the other hand, concerns about the ocean garden include whether a set-up like this would disrupt the local food infrastructure. Coastal communities often rely on fish not just as food for the family but as a source of income (selling the catch). One way to mitigate the concern is if the ocean garden respects local customs and is mindful of the condition of the ocean.

One thing is clear; we can grow plants underwater. We can get away from the water crisis and find a new way of ensuring food security.

By Masiziba Hadebe

Kids Care because they know Did you like the article on Greta last month?

Amazingly, she is not alone.

I read an article in City Press 3 November2019, composed by Dion Chang (*) (pg 5, Voices section).

Chang is mentioning a few other young activists, all who have had a huge impact worldwide.

What Chang is mentioning is something very remarkable. His explanation is rather simple: These activists are not just parroting their parents. They know what they are doing and they have a genuine concern and commitment to a cause.

It has been made possible because of one simple thing: Everybody has a smart-phone (also the 7-year old’s we presume) and all are connected.

This is a significant change in information consumption. It means that even very young children absorb news about a range of topics and make up their own mind based on the input received. And then they act!

Let us look at an example I got to know about from Chang’s article: 2018: Two sisters (Ella and Caitlin McEwan) aged seven and nine wrote to McDonald’s about the plastic toys handed out with the kiddie’s meals. They were ignored. Then they started a campaign on change.org and suddenly McDonald’s (and later Burger King) got the mes-

sage. Toys changed! And big business found out that youth cannot be ignored.

Of course this one is a bit extreme, but look at the context: The sisters (seven and nine!) knew about plastic as a pollutant, they made the connection between plastic pollution and MacDonald’s toys and they felt compelled to write a letter.

How could they know so much about plastic pollution? Obviously from the internet, the school and usage of smart-phones. (Ok, this is a guess).

The remarkable thing here is that they have the ability to connect various facts into a cohesive message and then find the channels to propagate the message.

This is the mini-revolution we now need to adjust to.

We might now say that this is not something for a high-school student to get into. After all, high-school students are still very much ‘Greta’s’. Not so fast! In a few years our students will sit in the board rooms and the management meetings. What will you do? You are now the establishment.

Chang’s message is clear: Listen now or hurt later (*) Dion Chang owns and runs the trends company - www.fluxtrends.com. Flux Trends is a research company and you may find other information shared to be useful.

Greta is not alone!

I have gleaned these examples from Dion Chang’s (*) article in City Press (3 November 2019. Pg 5 in the Voice section). Additional text is from various websites

Ella and Caitlin McEwan:

“Sisters Ella and Caitlin McEwan are petitioning @McDonalds and @ BurgerKing to stop including plastic toys in their kids’ meals.

“We like to go to eat at Burger King and McDonald’s, but children only play with the plastic toys they give us for a few minutes before they get thrown away and harm animals and pollute the sea,” they wrote on the petition. “We want anything they give to us to be sustainable so we can protect the planet for us and for future generations.” (change.org’s facebook page).

Where did they get the info from: ““We’ve been learning all about the environment at school and the problem of plastic,” the sisters wrote online.”

Does it sound too ‘grown-up’? could be that mom and dad helped with the grammar? but that should not mean we discard their concern.

What came out of it (gleaned from businessinsider) • Fer Machado, Burger King’s global chief marketing officer, announced the news on Wednesday. Burger King says it will save 320 tonnes of plastic a year • The burger chain has also launched “Meltdown” - a scheme where UK customers buying an adult meal can get a kids’ meal for free if they drop off an old toy to be recycled.

• Katie Evans, marketing director at Burger King UK, said in a statement: “It is impossible to ignore the growing problem excessive plastic waste is causing and we are glad to be taking action.”

Vivian Lord: Army toy set from BMC

Vivian is six years old. The family was on holiday and Vivian won tickets in the arcade. Those were used to get a set of toy army soldiers figurines. Lo and behold, Vivian had a great time (apparently) but noticed something odd: Those were all male figures.

She wanted the family to google it (so she knows google!) and they found no female soldier figurines.

So, a letter was composed to several toy makers. BMC responded. Apparently, they had been ‘toying’ with the idea of female soldiers but not sure how the market would react. … and there is Vivian’s letter. Confirming exactly their thoughts. The figurines will be available in 2020 for Christmas We could perhaps find other stories, but it confirms Chang’s findings: Kids have access and they can think and act! (*) Dion Chang owns and runs the trends company - www.fluxtrends. com. Flux Trends is a research company and you may find other information shared on their site to be useful.

It’s mov All sourced from: Ford vs Ferrari American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

Screening from: 21 November 2019

vie time!

Frozen II I know, I know, but...

I love fairytales, I love those type of movies, so here goes: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf are going far in the forest to know the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.

Screening from: 5 December 2019

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