Dr. Mulalo Doyoyo: from Apartheid to Engineering November 15 2005
Dr. Mulalo Doyoyo School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
What was your childhood like in South Africa? (To download this video to your own computer, right-click this link, then "save target as.")

Transcript: I grew up in a village in northern South Africa, among Avenda [?] ethnic group. The village is about 500 miles north of Johannesburg. I worked very hard, I was basically a full-time farm kid. What I did mainly was I grew up looking after goats, sheep, and cattle. This was the main contribution to my family at that time. We played soccer. We played a sport also similar to baseball a little bit. We played hide-and-seek, but our hide-and-seek was a little complex, because it also involved little bushes and trees, so I could really hide. You could really have fun with that kind of environment for hide-and seek. It was a dangerous environment because you have a lot of snakes there in Africa, but this is an environment that you get used to. I didn't live very far from the national park, the big Kruger National Park, so once in a while we would see some of the wild animals, like leopards, hyaenas, you know, we could see the smaller ones. But of course in our playground we never encountered an elephant or a lion. But in the rivers where we used to swim we would see a lot of crocodiles and we could see hippos, these were the kinds of animals we were used to. And we also understood a little bit how they behaved.