Trying something different with apartheid introducing the TRC

1. Trying something different with apartheidintroducing the TRC Methodology: • Explained the National Party’s rise to power in 1948. • Link with an extended writing piece in a Cycle Test. • Explanation of the apartheid laws 1950 -1953 • Introduced the TRC with the DVD

2. Substantial gap in the narrative • Learners were required to respond by recording facts and feelings • Viewed Phila Ndwandwe’s story • Personal written response from learners • Questions • Collection of primary narratives • Oral feedback • Back to the chronology of apartheid

3. Results • Learner’s positioned themselves differently in relation to apartheid. • Discussion turned to the meaning of justice, not the facts of apartheid. • Spiked interest in learner’s, especially primary narrative collection.

4. View the DVD

5. NDWANDWE, Phila Portia (aka ‘Zandile’ or ‘Zandi’) (23), acting head of MK’s Natal military machinery in Swaziland, was abducted from Mazini, Swaziland, in October 1988 by members of the Port Natal and Natal Security Branches. She was taken first to Onverwacht, Tvl, then to the Elandskop farm, near Pietermaritzburg, and interrogated at both places. After refusing to become an askari, Ms Ndwandwe was shot in the head and buried in an unmarked grave on the farm. Her fate remained unknown until amnesty applications were filled by Port Natal Security Branch operatives. Her body was exhumed by the Commission and reburied by her family. Five Security Branch operatives were granted amnesty for the abduction and killing. (AC/2001/112) Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, Volume 7, Victim findings: Summaries, page 612