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Return of the Scientific Caravan
organized by Sirius and APC of Constantine, with the help of SAAO
from the Sutherland Observatory, the SALT telescope, South Africa
22 July- 30July 2010

Part II
(Go to part III, Back to part I)


Cultural & Touristic Visit

The MTM Center for scientific activities. A Science Museum on its own right.

... situed in the Century City Mall.


Smail in front of a space suit.In a back is a burned out Titan rocket stage which fell in South Africa.

At the nuclear energy exposition.

Smail checking a sundial next to a pool

The camera obscura on top of the building. No lens, no electronics, just a pinhole and a cylinder and a flat surface as a projection screen. Its first decription go back to the Muslim scientist El-Battani.

Here what we see: Three of us are standing in the middle of the parking. The slanted picture is just from the angle of view the picture was taken. The camera obscura is actually in the green dome, and thecamera obscura small opening is in the smaller supola above it.
In Town

Standing at the former central slave market

In front of the infamous "Castle" where the Dutch garrison were staying.

The City Hall where Mandela pronounced his famous speech right after been freed from Robben Island

At the Botanic park in the Garden's




The District Six Museum: A living Testimony of the Affres of Apartheid

High School kids visiting the Museum. Many had their families living there before the neighborhood was destroyed



Remembrance

A tower of street names which are gone for ever...

The various home destructions in Dsistrict Six area.
A "handing back District Six" rally in 2001 after the dimantling of the Apartheid .



Walking where one used to live

Smail and Oufi taking turn to leave their testimony.
Visiting the Islamia High School
 

Visiting the Islamia High School

It's a whole School complex, from kindergarden to High School.

Talking to the teachers about scientific animation.

Mingling with the "locals".

Some gifts given by Sirius to the School.




Hikma checking the learning skills of thse would be Hafiz
At the Voice of the Cape Radio Station ...

The team was interviewed at the Voice of the Cape Radio station.

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