Braam Knights Klub

Stokvels, Burial Societies and Black Tax in the South African context all have one purpose upliftment. Self-help organizations that are community driven and designed for a deprived class of citizens previously excluded from economically participation. They developed and adapted the informal financial structures to overcome the inaccessibility of formal structures of apartheid.  The origin of stokvel comes from the English settlers performing cattle auctions called stock fairs in the Eastern Cape during the early 1900s. The mutual financial assistance pooling clubs also known as stokvels, stokies, estokini, gegoois, gooi-goois, doodsgenootskap, burial society, mahodisana, mogodiso or kuholisana. Clan Commonwealth Financial structures like black Tax and stokvels have been in existence for thousands of years under different names in different languages like in Botswana: Poor members of the community were assisted by more affluent members through systems such as Mafisa (a financial sch...

  Where, does the African dandy come from? From the self-styled fabrics of West Africa, the feather headdresses of East Africa, the jewellery and turban wraps of the North and the leather, fur coats and beadwork of the South. Transfer that, to the modern era: tracksuits, baggy and skinny pants, prints, patterns, and and and... The desire to out shine has always existed but in South Africa's case dandyism with European garments starts in the nineteen hundreds.  A dandy is a man who gives a great deal of attention to his personal appearance. The Diamond Dandies The discovery of diamonds in South Africa began in 1867 which increased the world's supply of diamonds by 95%. African Kings And Clan leaders started taking advantage of the diamond wealth ordering their subjects to buy firearms which were used to fight European encroachment. Some cases Africa's would take uniforms of killed soldiers and others adapted more christian European look (suits and pants).  The Modernizatio...