Teaching guide to by used with the 1986 film Witness to Apartheid. The pamphlet says the story Witness to Apartheid tells is stark: children in South Africa- the same age as students we teach- are today being beaten, detained, even tortured. The pamphlet discusses Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Curtis Nkondo, the United Democratic Front (UDF), Johann Fourie, Dumisani Kumalo, the Department of Education and Training (DET), Jacob Molefe, COSATU, the Detainees Parents Support Committee, Bantustans, the Group Areas Act, the South African Council of Churches, the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the State of Emergency,...
Teaching guide to by used with the 1986 film Witness to Apartheid. The pamphlet says the story Witness to Apartheid tells is stark: children in South Africa- the same age as students we teach- are today being beaten, detained, even tortured. The pamphlet discusses Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Curtis Nkondo, the United Democratic Front (UDF), Johann Fourie, Dumisani Kumalo, the Department of Education and Training (DET), Jacob Molefe, COSATU, the Detainees Parents Support Committee, Bantustans, the Group Areas Act, the South African Council of Churches, the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the State of Emergency, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and the American Committee on Africa. Contents: Introduction and Summary of Lessons • Day One: Apartheid Simulation • Day Two: Film-Witness to Apartheid • Day Three: Role Play-"A New Breed of Children" • Day Four: Role Play-"A New Breed of Children" (completion) • Day Five: South Africa Letter Writing • Reference Materials • Student Handout #1 Privileged Minority • Student Handout #2 The Bantustans • Student Handout #3 Human Rights Fact Sheet • Student Handout #4 Learning Was Defiance • Student Handout #5 South African Student • Student Handout #6 Challenging "Gutter Education
