Charlize Theron: South African Actress

As Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman
The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) was created in 2007 in an effort to keep African youth safe from HIV/AIDS.
Charlize Theron is involved in Woman´s Rights Organizations and Pro-Choice Movements.
She supports animal rights and appears in anti-fur campaigns like the above.

BEaUTY & The BEaST



"The Hottentot Venus": S. African Native

Saartjie Baartman  was a Khoisan slave who at the age of 20 was taken from Cape Town to London and  Paris, to be displayed naked in streets and at circuses
George Cuvier,  a distinguished Social Anthropologists, believed she was the missing link!
Sara Baartman died in Paris in 1816. Cuvier made a plaster cast of her body, dissected it and conserved the skeleton and organs in bottles of formaldehyde at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.
 
Her remains were displayed there until 1976!
In 1994President Nelson Mandela formally requested that France return the remains; they were repatriated in 2002 and buried at her birthplace in the Gamtoos Valley (Eastern Cape, S. Africa).

Parts of the Body Song


Body Parts Song