10/09/2026
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Recently, our Grade 9 History students spent four hours at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre exploring two of the darkest chapters of the 20th century: the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
But the learning did not begin with dates.
It began with identity.
Who am I? How do I see those who are different from me? What happens when stereotyping becomes prejudice, prejudice becomes othering, and people stop seeing one another as equally human?
Through discussion and the Centre's permanent exhibitions, students encountered histories that are difficult to learn about. More importantly, they were challenged to consider what those histories ask of them NOW.
And their responses are perhaps the most important part of the story.
โI will make sure I am not a bystander when discrimination is occurring.โ
โTo speak up when I think something is unacceptable or speak up for what is right.โ
โI will be more careful with my words.โ
Because education should do more than help young people understand the world that came before them.
It should help them decide what kind of world they are prepared to create next.
That is where history becomes something more than a subject.
It becomes a responsibility.
