PORT SHEPSTONE TWINNING ASSOCIATION 2010: DISCUSSIONS

ACTIVITIES FOR 2010

4-7 February 2010

Ebbe and Helen from Kalmer Lans Museum

Purpose :Planing TT activities for the year, workshop and meeting at Umzumbe, a new initiative

Soderhamn Building Project

March 2010
Time Travel workshops (3)and Time Travel to 1905 with adults participants at GET level.

Expansion of Time Travel to Umzumbe.

Aanette ( 2 weeks)

Soderhamn
Aanette and Hakan- Distance Education Programme
( Ugu Soderhamn Partnership)

Stefan Windh and Sanna - HCM and Oskarshamn Commune

April 2010

Olof Palme Evaluation ( 15,16 April)
Ulf Per

May 2010

Time Travel Training in Sweden ( 24 May - 6 June 2010)
Thulas, Howard and Rosey

June 2010
Thomas Norgren and Cecelia from Soderhamn visit (31 May - 4 June)
Purpose: To assess different initiatives and way forward
Graduation of Building and Distance Education programme

June 2010:
1o June - Partnership meeting to plan October Bridging Ages conference.

June 2010
World soccer cup,Tormod's birthday - celebraion by Twinning

August - September 2010
8 person delegation from Hibiscus Coast municipality to Oskarshamn led by Speaker Ronnie Nair, Mayor Shusha, MM- Sbu Mkhize, Nomusa, Councillor Madlala,Colin Ngilande , Councillor Dr. Njoko and one other

OCTOBER

7th Oct - AGM

20th October: Arrival of Stefan Windh- Oskarshamn / HCM project

Bridging Ages SA
20& 21 South Africa Conference
22 October BASA Board meeting
23 October Planning Gamalakhe Time Travel meeting with Thulas
24 th Oct: Planning meeting in Umzumbe
26th Oct -Huge Time Travel - approx 160 persons - celebration of indentured labourers - 1860
27th Oct- worshop and time travel in Umzumbe
28th Gamalakhe workshop - established a Time Travel Committee
29th Evaluation and Way Forward

November 2010 - Youth Delegation to Sweden:
Yachika, Ayanda and Jeevan
30 0ct - 21 Nov 2010

Celebration of Indentured Labourers:

Nov 11,12
Exhibition by Twinning Association- commented by Dr. Ashwin Desai as excellent.

8 th December 2010

Twinning End of Year Get Together

Extract from Olof Palme International Centre Website

"History" - a democratic right

Yet, the poor and under privileged voice in the historiography of South Africa in many cases not been heard. Poverty is still widespread, the social differences are considerable and need to strengthen democracy. To own and be a part of his story is part of come from a social and cultural poverty. There is a deepening of democracy.
Against this background, the project supports the Palme Center All-Time History is a collaboration between ABF Eastern Småland / Öland, Kalmar County Museum, Oskarshamn Southern Africa Committee and Port Shepstone Twinning COMMIT. The project commenced in 2008 and will run until 2010 aimed at providing non-privileged people in South Africa a voice in the historiography through a so-called "time travel".

One of the projekansvariga is Ebbe Westergren, writers and museum pedagouge at Kalmar County Museum, which for over 20 years has worked with various organizations and institutions in over ten different countries with this concept.

- Simply put, it is about to dig into history and then develop forms of engagement and education for those who always fell foul of the official history, as the subordinate and suppressed, the colonized, "says Ebbe Westergren.

Concrete begins work to historians and archaeologists produce documentation of key historical sites. The material is summarized and then used for a so-called time travel, that is, a form of interactive history lesson in which people in different ways may återupleva and portray the story out of this bottom-up approach.

- I felt that South Africa is an ideal context for implementing the method. Nowhere else is the story so present and so it is clear that the group that held power, the white colonial power, also is the author of the story, he says.

Another Project participants are Tormod Nesset, president of South Africa Committee of Oskarshamn, who also previously worked with a similar "time travel" in the Western Cape, South Africa.

- To critically examine a history of unilateral depicted as the dominant group's history is therefore an important part of a larger process of reconciliation, says Tormod Nesset.

- Knowing his history is one democratic right because the knowledge and pride in their origin is a prerequisite for being able to look ahead. Similarly, one can conclude that an incorrect and discriminatory history becomes a tool for the continued oppression and marginalization. In cases where the story is clearly misleading and distorted, as in South Africa, these "time travel" play an enormously important role.

Luciano Peirone

2008-05-29

A NEED EXPESSED IN 2008 - ON THE MAIN TWINNING BLOG

WE HAVE MADE A START!

A CHALLENGE FOR ALL OF US!

There is a crying need for a professional, dedicated and credible " Our History Project" that seeks to research, record and publish for this and future generations the history of our region, especially the last 20 years. This should include our struggle against apartheid, the violence of the 1990's, the peace process, building democracy and not least economic history.

There are many, many stories of struggle and sacrifice, of pain and death, of hereos and heroines, of courage and success, of betrayal and failure.This task is now very urgent because many of the real life participants and other custodians of this history are fast passing on. Prince was one such example. Sipho was the other. Anderson Nyawosa from Shobashobana, a past delegate. Saggie Nair and not forgetting George Mbele.

There is the real danger that if we delay further, that when we do start, there will be no original sources any more. That would be a further tragedy and a grave disservice not only to future generations but also the generation that gave so much for all of us.

GULSHERA KHAN

PORT SHEPSTONE TWINNING ASSOCIATION 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

BRIDGING AGES SOUTH AFRICA CONFERENCE- 20, 21 OCTOBER

Training Team

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