Tell your story
Secondary school learners from Grade 8 to 11, who are provincial winners will be competing in the national finals of the 9th Annual Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, from October 3 to 6.
The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme was started to commemorate and celebrate the lives of those who contributed in shaping our democracy, as a way to unearth those untold stories that form an integral part of our history, and, to strengthen the learning and teaching of history in schools.
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) in partnership with South African History Online (SAHO) is responsible for this programme and will be hosting the finals.
“The department values the programme as it resonates well with our vision of making education a societal issue, also that everyone in our society will learn and engage with each other around matters that affect us all.” said Dr G Whittle Deputy Director General in the department.
The competition was named after Nkosi Albert Luthuli, a Nobel Prize laureate and former President General of the African National Congress.
Nkosi Luthuli strongly believed in public education.
He himself had trained as a teacher, was employed early on in his life as a teacher in Newcastle and later joined the teaching staff of Adams College
For this year’s competition, learners have researched and prepared a presentation or a documentary film / video on one of the following topics:
* How Apartheid affected people’s lives and how people responded
* Unsung Heroes and Heroines in my local community in the first 20 years of democracy
* The achievements in the education system since the advent of democracy in 1994
Each learner has had to interview ordinary people who have not been publically acknowledged to tell their story.
Sources need to be used to validate the information gathered from the interviews.
Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) has been running a similar Tell Your Story campaign and has partnered with a number of organisations around this.
The Chief Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme has provided the perfect opportunity to hear from learners who have interviewed communit or family members as well as unsung heroes and heroines about their stories, more particularly their experiences of apartheid and democracy.
Now is your time to Tell Your Story.
Share your 20 Years of Freedom story by submitting your video and /or text to electronic@gcis.gov.za and we will publish stories on our website.
Visit www.gcis.gov.za/tell-your-story-campaign for more information.
