TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to prevent political corruption | Stephanie Honchell Smith
Corruption is often defined as misuse of a position of power for personal gain. And while corruption in politics is nothing new, it isn't limited to the political sphere; it can happen in schools, sports, businesses, or religious...
TED Talks
TED: How to build a global pro-democracy movement | Yordanos Eyoel
Democracy is the most compelling vision we have for self-governance, says freedom advocate Yordanos Eyoel. Taking a stand against predatory and opportunist authoritarian forces, she shares how to reimagine, accelerate and protect the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? | Thula Simpson
For 46 years, South Africans lived under Apartheid, a strict policy of segregation that barred the country’s Black majority from skilled, high-paying jobs, quality education, voting, and much more. So, how did these laws come to be? And...
TED Talks
TED: Democracy works — we just need better leaders | Lindiwe Mazibuko
South Africa transitioned to democracy in the 1990s with a visionary constitution, but the promises of that constitution are largely unfulfilled to this day. Public leader Lindiwe Mazibuko explores how poor leadership failed to deliver a...
TED Talks
TED: Unions for climate action! | Payton M. Wilkins
In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment — but in the short term, it can devastate a community or family that relied on the mine's paychecks to make ends meet. Environmental justice...
PBS
The Missing Link That Wasn’t
The myth of the Missing Link--the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a modern human--is persistent. But the reality is that there is no missing link in our lineage, because that’s...
PBS
The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution. Throughout time, part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal...
PBS
The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
To figure out how Thrinaxodon and Broomistega became entombed together, scientists looked at the burrow itself, along with their fossilized bones. And it looks like their luck ran out, when a behavior that usually would’ve helped them...
PBS
Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
This video contains images and video of snakes and spiders. It's possible Euchambersia possessed venom about 20 million years before the first lizards and over 150 million years before the first snakes evolved. We’ve teamed up Sarah Suta...
PBS
Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: One of history's most dangerous myths | Anneliese Mehnert
From the 1650s through the late 1800's, European colonists descended on South Africa. They sought to claim the region, becoming even more aggressive after discovering the area's abundant natural resources. To support their claims to the...
SciShow
The Quietest, Oldest, and Magnetic-iest Science of 2018
2018 was full of exciting discoveries and incredible advancements in the field of science. So today, we are taking a look back at 2018 to highlight three more great science news stories!
Crash Course
Into Africa and Wole Soyinka: Crash Course Theater #49
It's difficult to talk about African theater thanks to colonialism. Pre-colonial Africa was home to many spoken languages, and not nearly as many written languages. The chain of oral tradition was broken by colonial policies, and so many...
Curated Video
Actor Daniel Wu and wife Lisa Selesner hold wedding banquet
AP Television
Hong Kong, 28 July 2010
1. Wide shot press waiting outside the venue
2. Mid shot entrance of the venue
3. Mid shot photographers
4. Wide shot Daniel Wu and Lisa Selesner walking out of the door for photo call
5. Close...
Curated Video
South Africa - Zimbabwean President On Elections
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday (16/3) claimed that
his opponents in his country's presidential election had withdrawn
their candidacy only because they found the going too tough.
Speaking in Pretoria after a meeting with...
Curated Video
FW de Klerk says Thatcher played role in promoting change in South Africa
1. Frederik Willem de Klerk, former president of South Africa, arriving for news conference
2. Mid of journalists
3. Pan from cameramen to De Klerk
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederik Willem de Klerk, former South African...
Curated Video
4:3 Tiny village in Eastern Cape is where late president called home
The tiny village of Qunu is where South Africa's most celebrated son, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday at the age 95, called home.
The rolling hills and fields of Qunu is where the boy who was to become the father of the nation,...
Curated Video
SYND 12 11 77 UNITED NATION ANDREW YOUNG PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA
The South African government adopted powers giving it almost total control of the economy. These measures followed the United Nations arms embargo and demands for other sanctions against South Africa. United States ambassador to the...
Curated Video
SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENT MANDELA RECEIVES HONOURARY DOCTORATE
English/Nat
South African President Nelson Mandela Saturday received an honorary Doctorate Degree in Law from the University of South Africa.
Mandela took the opportunity to announce the members of a panel made up of legal experts,...
Curated Video
Mandela's former jailer on Robben Island talks about his former prisoner
The former Robben Island prison guard who befriended Nelson Mandela during his time on the island prison described him as a "father" and "a person which you can look up to."
Christo Brand was a young jailer when Mandela, who had already...
Curated Video
SOUTH AFRICA: JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH VISITS CAPE TOWN UPDATE
English/Nat
The president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, has arrived in South Africa to discuss Cape Town's bid to stage the Olympics in the year 2004.
Mr Samaranch met South African leader Nelson...
Curated Video
Hopes of African continent with Ghana's "Black Stars"
30 June, 2010
1. Various of street traders carrying Ghanaian flags to sell walking along road in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton
01 July, 2010
2. Wide of news conference held by the World Cup Local Organising Committee for the...
Curated Video
British PM visits township
1. Wide of British Prime Minister Tony Blair walking across road to bridge
2. Various of Blair looking at river bed
3. Armed guard
4. Various of Blair on bridge
5. Various of Blair planting tree
6. Blair standing by podium, being...
Curated Video
South Africa - Factory Churns Out New Flag
On Wednesday (27/4) South Africa's new national flag will be
hoisted in the nine cities where provincial assemblies will be
based after the country's first all-race elections. Factories have
been working at full speed to produce the...