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Gallery of Work from the schools

Economic and Management Science in Fauresmith
By E Schulz, Olien High School
Where is Fauresmith

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Elapa Project - Grade 8

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Where is Fauresmith?

Link with HSS: SO6 Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships
Between society and the natural environment

Link with HSS: SO6: Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationship
Between society and the natural environment

INTRODUCTION:
A CASE STUDY:
SO7: Actions which advance sustained economic growth, reconstruction and development in South Africa

CONTEXT:
10 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY IN FAURESMITH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH TOURISM HELPS FAURESMITH TO MOVE FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY

THEME:

SIGHTS:

• DE BEERS MINE
• GLAASSTUDIO
• RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM
• IPOPENG JOB CREATION PROJECT

ADVANTAGES OF TOURIST ATTRACTIONS:

• JOB CREATION
• INCOMES IN THE FORM OF SALARIES
• OWNERSHIP IN SOME OF THE BUSINESSES
• UPLIFT OF LIVING STANDARDS

HOUSES BEFORE

RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM

THEME:

SOUNDS:

• TSHUKUDU GAME RESERVE
• SOUTH AFRICAN ENDURANCE RIDE

The first endurance ride was held as a consequence of an argument in the magazine "Landbou Weekblad" about which horse breed has the best endurance ability. In 1464 Landbou Weekblad organised a race to settle the issue. An endurance ride was held from Hanover to De Aar to Richmond and back to Hanover. In those years there were no veterinary surgeons to check the horses, as is compulsory today. The ride was a huge success, with the Arabian breed emerging victorious.

In 1465 disaster struck when, after the ride, most of the horses appeared to have been poisoned by persons who were opposed to the competition. Approximately sixty of the participating horses died.

The first ride after 1465 was in 1473 in Fauresmith. The area and temperature lends it to endurance riding. During the 1973 race seventeen riders competed. The number has since grown to between 250 and 300 entries each year.

After every 25 km has been completed, the riders have 20 minutes to cool down their horses. They are then checked by veterinary surgeons. Heart rate and muscles are checked, and all overstrained horses are disqualified.

The cameraderie and sportmanship between riders were probably best illustrated in 2003 when Laura Woods, a Junior Springbok rider stopped halfway through the race to assist another competitor that fell.

The Fauresmith International Endurance Ride is considered one of the toughest in the world. It is not the toughest because of the distance, but because riders must complete tong distances over three consecutive days. Riders have been known to get up every hour during the freezing nights to check on their horses.

Veteran riders such as Ami de Wet, Claire Amm and Chris Thiel returns year after year to compete in this gruelling race.

TASTES:

• FOOD LIKE POTJIEKOS PROJECTS FEED HUNGER CHILDREN
• OLIEN HOSTEL PROJECT
• CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
• INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURS

POTJIEKOS FEED THE HUNGER CHILDREN

CHILDREN FROM THE CRECHE FED FROM THE POTJIEKOS PROJECT

OLIEN HOSTEL PROJECT:
The project offers the children better living circumstances and the opportunity
of better education.

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES GROW THERE OWN CROPS

MOM SELL” VETKOEKE” AT THE SCHOOLGATE DURING BREAK

ENTREPRENEURS DURING PENSIONDAY

CRITICAL OUTCOMES:

• CO4: WORK EFFECTTIVELY WITH OTHERS IN A GROUP
• CO5: COLLECT/ANALYSE, ORGANISE AND CRITICAL EVALUATE INFORMATION

DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES:

• REFLECTING ON AND EXPLORING A VARIETY OF STRATEGIES TO LEARN MORE EFFECTIVELY

SPECIFIC OUTCOMES:

• SO1: ENGAGE IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES
• SO7: ACTIONS WHICH ADVANCE SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH, RECONSTRUCTION AND
  DEVELOPMENT IN S.A. ARE DEMONSTRATED

LIFE ROLE:

LIFE LONG LEARNER AND RESEARCHER

ACTIVITY 1:
FORM OF ASSESSMENT: PROJECT
SO1: Engage in entrepreneurial activities
After we identified the tourist attractions and available resources in our local community you will now consider ways of attracting people from foreign countries to visit South Africa and so enhance tourism and create jobs in your community.

Instructions:
Each one is required to prepare a poster featuring an existing tourist attraction in your local environment. Please note the following:

• This poster is to be presented at a tourism conference.
• The poster must depict what the tourist attraction offers and give details of the attraction.
• Pictures may be drawn or cut out of newspapers.
• Information may be collected from newspapers, magazines, television, radio, tourism brochures, internet or by interviewing people

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