Rustenburg entered the Holocaust Centre’s Annual Creative Competition for the 25th year with a record amount of entries from our Grade 11 History learners. The creative projects were an extension of the Grade 11 Heritage Research Investigation on Apartheid. The theme this year was “Commemorating Freedom: Holocaust as a Lens for Remembrance Memorials in South Africa”. The learners had to use a Holocaust memorial as inspiration to create a memorial or commemorative piece in recognition of South Africa’s Apartheid past, and to share within it a message of hope for our future.
Student representatives and staff attended the Award Ceremony on Sunday, 31 August at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, where RGHS walked away with several awards. We were commended for both our long participation in the event as well as having the most entrants and the most prize winners.
The awards as follows:
Senior Art:
1st Place: Eila de Villiers – “The Power of Women”
2nd Place: Alice Croft – “Freedom Is The Room To Sit Beside Another”
3rd Place: Azraa Dhansay – “Lights That Should Have Never Gone Out”
Senior Writing:
1st Place: Aaminah Moosa – “The Dust We Inherit”
2nd Place: Zia du Plooy – “I can hear the youth of June 16th”
Senior Digital – Documentary Film:
1st Place: Madison September – “Remember My Legacy”
2nd Place: Grace Muzzell – “War Isn’t Murder”
2nd Place: Manaal Hendricks – “Tracks of the Past”
Senior Digital – Website:
1st Place: Zanda Matiwana – “Footsteps of Freedom”
1st Place: Mivuyo Xakekile – “Commemorating Freedom”
