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Mr J Manenzhe Presented at the 30 th Annual conference of the SASHT Port Elizabeth Pine Lodge 07 October 2016 INTRODUCTION This presentation seeks to evaluate the value of History and its relevance as a contributing factor to nation building in South Africa ID: 570327

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Slide1

Making History Compulsory in South Africa – a key component of nation buildingMr J Manenzhe

Presented at the 30

th

Annual conference of the SASHT

(Port Elizabeth – Pine Lodge)

07 October 2016Slide2

INTRODUCTIONThis presentation seeks to evaluate the value of History and its relevance as a contributing factor to nation building in South Africa.

The (democratic) political dispensation (1994) in SA ushered in a new and promising sense of a rainbow nation from the divided past.

Slide3

INTRODUCTIONSA however, lacked a programme designed to unify ‘the’ nation whose division was institutionalised.

The TRC attempted to heal atrocities of the divided past at a political level but could not bring about the social cohesion for nation building

Since

then, some achievements

of national

sports teams and certain individual contributions emerged as vital examples of the new SA at work.

Slide4

Attempts to make History compulsory in Nigeria2009/10, the History Society of Nigeria presented a bill to the National Assembly to make History compulsory in sec schools – they were worried of decline in the subject (patriotic reason) (G.

Onyekpe

)

Why compulsory? A child might be brilliant but without historical knowledge of his nation, his analysis of issues would be superficial Slide5

History mattersDoctors ask for medical history from their patients (D. Crabtree, Institute of

Guten

berg College)

When a patient return to the doctor, he/she pulls out a file which contain notes from the past visits Slide6

Make History compulsory for the right reasonsMaking History compulsory should not be encouraged by a narrow patriotic sense of national identity (exclusion then & now remains wrong) (R. Evans, Guardian)

It should be for right reasons e.g. getting pupils learn & understand cultures separated from us by time and space(non-violence approach by the Civil Rights Movement in the USA to # … must fall) Slide7

Value of HistoryGives a society a sense of belonging, pride of being a member of the collective and truly part of something worth protecting & preserving(national identity)Develops specific skills: ability to assess evidence, ability to assess conflicting interpretations & ability to identify continuities that always accompany even the most dramatic changes (Continuity & Change) (P. Stearns. AHA)Slide8

Former model C schools as a foundationCreating sense of belonging & commonness to learners from different groups

Distr

(LMP)

No of schools

No of schools doing History

CAPRICORN

6

2

MOPANI

2

0

SEKHUKHUNE

1

1

VHEMBE

2

1 (Introduced in Gr 10 – 2015)

WATERBERG

7

3

TOTAL

18

7Slide9

Potential – Growing no of learners

2012

2013

2014

2015

NATIONA

94 489

109 046

115 686

154 398

GAUTEN

18 215

22 483

25 319

35 508Slide10

How to construct a new nation Education (one of the 5 steps) with 3 principle challenges; HR, physical infrastructure & content. (C. Qunta

. 2016: 94)

Content: ‘our

educ

institutions were carbon copies of Europeans ones, that has to undergo a radical change so that the next generation of children is freed from

indocrination

’ Slide11

How to construct a new nation ‘The contributions of Africans to world civilisation should be a compulsory field of study incorporated into all disciplines, not only History, e.g. medical students should learn of the medical practices of Africans such as

Inhotep

and the medical texts of the Middle Ages in Timbuktu’ Slide12

Impact on contentPerspectives of most current topics, e.g. The People’s CharterInternal/ External resistance to apartheid

History of sports in South Africa Slide13

Thank you