Bienvenue en Afrique du Sud
À propos de l'Afrique du Sud
L'Afrique du Sud, officiellement la République d'Afrique du Sud, est le pays le plus méridional d'Afrique. Elle est bordée au sud par 2 798 kilomètres de côtes qui s'étendent le long des océans Atlantique Sud et Indien ; au nord par les pays voisins que sont la Namibie, le Botswana et le Zimbabwe ; et à l'est et au nord-est par le Mozambique et l'Eswatini.
Elle encercle également complètement le Lesotho. C'est le pays le plus méridional du continent américain, et le deuxième pays le plus peuplé situé entièrement au sud de l'équateur, après la Tanzanie.
L'Afrique du Sud est un haut lieu de la biodiversité, abritant des biomes , une faune et une flore uniques . Avec plus de 62 millions d'habitants , le pays est le 23e plus peuplé au monde et couvre une superficie de 1 221 037 kilomètres carrés.
Pretoria est la capitale administrative, tandis que Le Cap , siège du Parlement, est la capitale législative. Bloemfontein a traditionnellement été considérée comme la capitale judiciaire. La plus grande ville, et siège de la Cour suprême, est Johannesburg .
Environ 80 % de la population est composée de Sud-Africains noirs . Le reste de la population comprend les plus importantes communautés d'Afrique du Sud : les Sud-Africains blancs , les Sud- Africains d'origine asiatique (Sud-Africains d'origine indienne et chinoise ) et les Sud-Africains métis. L'Afrique du Sud est une société multiethnique qui englobe une grande variété de cultures , de langues et de religions . Ce pluralisme se reflète dans la reconnaissance par la Constitution de 12 langues officielles, soit le quatrième plus grand nombre au monde. [16] Selon le recensement de 2011, les deux langues maternelles les plus parlées sont le zoulou (22,7 %) et le xhosa (16,0 %). [20] Viennent ensuite les deux langues d'origine européenne : l'afrikaans (13,5 %), issu du néerlandais , est la langue maternelle de la plupart des Sud-Africains métis et blancs ; l'anglais (9,6 %) témoigne de l'héritage du colonialisme britannique et est couramment utilisé dans la vie publique et commerciale.
Pietermaritzburg :
Des rassemblements collectifs ont lieu tous les mercredis après-midi sur Muniredddy Road, à Pietermaritzburg .
Contacts :
Gauteng : Carmen Matthews : +27 727659066
Le Cap : Bhuvana Moodley : +27 725704207
Gordons Bay : Jason Mulryan : +27 823762324
Knysna : Adriette Seton : +27 732272717
Durban : Yajnaa Haridas : +27 837833771
Pietermaritzburg : Nishen Govender : +27 711156099
Tongaart :
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Shri Mataji parle de l'Afrique du Sud
Play on Joan Of Arc and Talk, Eve of Diwali Puja - 1998/10/24
https://www.amruta.org/1998/10/24/evening-talk-before-diwali-1998/?highlight=1998/10/24
So I wish you all a very happy Diwali, and a very prosperous New Year. The whole evening was so full of joy, peace that I don't know how to describe. The whole event was worked out so beautifully by the French. Especially people from South Africa, from Benin, from Ivory Coast, from Kenya, and also many others who have come from various countries, have shown their talent, their joy, their happiness. The best part of it is that I've found them to be very well equipped with …
Interview - 2000/09/11 https://www.amruta.org/2000/09/11/interviews-in-turin-2000/?highlight=2000/09/11
Everybody is in problem, everybody needs it! There are no boundaries. We have in South Africa, we have in Benin, where all the people are black, you know? We have seven thousand people in Benin. And Ivory Coast: the President of Ivory Coast is a sahaja yogi. In Eritrea also. So we have Sahaja Yoga everywhere now spreading, because everybody wants peace. Russia is the best. Thousands and thousands are there. Because of communism, they were thinking inside, they were going inside, they became very deep. While in democratic countries, see, they offer so many chances for us …
https://www.amruta.org/?s=SouthAfrica – 2000 09 27
You must have desire to settle down talk Shri Mataji says “I really want to go to South Africa”
https://www.amruta.org/2000/09/27/public-program-in-holland-park-2000/?highlight=2000%2009%2027
You must have desire to settle down 2000/09/27
.. South Africa and You are very far away physically, but he feels that You are there, helping him, why is that?A. That is My, that's My attention. I really want to go to South Africa. I've been trying, but I haven't got the permission. And now I've got the permission, definitely I'll go. And when you don't have permission you are more concerned about that country, isn't it?Q. What do you think about entities, bad spirits Mother, earth-bound spirits? A. There are, no doubt. They are there. But you …
Easter Puja: You are bound by the religion of love and joy 2002/04/21
https://www.amruta.org/2002/04/21/easter-puja-2002/?highlight=%202002/04/21
On the contrary, Sahaja Yoga is to unite all the people in the name of God, to make them one in the name of God. Supposing there is somebody living, say, in South Africa or, say, in a far-fetched place like Benin and all that — has become a Sahaja Yogi. There are thousands who have become Sahaja Yogis there. They are all your bothers and sisters. They’re your own. You go there and they will treat you just like their own children, their own relations. They will never think what religion you come from or what sect you come from, nothing. I was surprised the way they have love. Actually, loving is an innate quality of human beings. It’s an innate quality. Every human being has been given this treasure of loving, loving capacity. But that capacity has become so much less, so much minimum, that, with that capacity, people fight and kill each other. It’s a greatest sin to kill people in the name of religion.
Souvenirs éternels de SA Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The Reflection of the Universe - Elizabeth Ravenscroft - (Left this world in 2023)
I had been not too well by the third week after the 1990 India tour began. It was at the Krishna River where it all came to a head. I was taken to Shri Mataji and laid at Her Feet. She placed Her Feet on me and She massaged my head with oil and She shouted at the negativity to go away. It was all quite bewildering, but beautiful and wonderful at the same time because there was Mother really helping me to sort all this out.
After that beautiful experience, I started to have the most extraordinary feeling of thoughtless awareness. For a brief time, I experienced a satchitananda beyond words. We were on our way to Kolhapur the day this happened and for three days I was still quite ill. My thyroid had collapsed. One of the things Shri Mataji had said while working on me was, 'You must drink. I was very bad at drinking, but I tried to drink at least two litres of water a day.
"You don't want to end up in an Indian hospital, She said. 'You might not ever come out again,' which was enough to frighten me.
What I experienced in those next three days was a sense of euphoria. I don't quite know how to express it. It seemed as if there was a video playing and about six feet in front of me was a spot and everything was flowing out of me into this spot. Whether my eyes were closed or open this continued. There were some really lovely things and some really uncomfortable things, but I was able to witness whatever it was and this obviously was a clearing. It eventually stopped, but for two nights I almost didn't sleep. I was just in this state of wonderful, peaceful awareness of everything around me. I wasn't tired and was able to eat again. By the time we had the puja in Kolhapur, I knew this was my opportunity to go to Shri Mataji and thank Her for everything that She had done for me.
I was sitting at the back and, as the ladies were invited to go up, it seemed impossible to get there because there were so many people in front and as I reached the stage, there were already seven ladies there. 'No, stay,' the person who was there said. I don't know how common this is because usually seven are invited, but I was the eighth and was somehow allowed to stay. It was such a gift.
I was in the middle and the mirror was placed in my hands and I knew that I was holding the reflection of the universe to Mother. I knew I had to be extremely still. The mirror was very big and I couldn't see anything. I sat there for what seemed like hours. It was probably about twenty minutes, but Mother gave me the strength. I couldn't see them decorate Mother's Feet or anything, and I was quite sad about that.
The mirror was taken away and I was handed the tray with the crown on it and was to place the crown on Mother's head. And in that moment, everything that I had wanted to do for Mother was answered. I couldn't fasten the tie at the back of Her head, and my attention was on Mother's head for quite some time, until someone rescued me. But it was obviously all for a purpose and to this day I feel enormously blessed.
When I got back to South Africa and was tested, the tests came out very extreme. The doctor said he had never seen anyone with such a badly collapsed thyroid walking around and that I should have been on a drip in a hospital. I mentioned that I had had a healing from a very special lady in India.
'Well, that's it,' he said. 'Because other than that, it is impossible that you are still functioning the way you are. So that was a miracle.
Elizabeth Ravenscroft
Born in the UK, moved to Cape Town, South Africa in the 60's.
Stayed there until her passing in 2023 at the age of 80 years old.
May her soul rest in peace!