This initiative followed after the publication of the Manifesto on Values, Education and Democracy and the Report of the History and Archaeology Panel in South Africa in 2001.This report was written by leading scholars who advised the then Minister of Education on the strengthening of the teaching of history in South African schools after the end of apartheid.
The report proposed the establishment of a panel of respected historians, educationists and academics to advise the government on how to strengthen history teaching in South African schools.
Amongst its various strategic achievements, the project conducted national audits of history books used in schools and of archaeologists and historians in South Africa.
[2] It has also worked with the Parliamentary Millennium Project on perspectives on and of Africa, and with the NGO South African History Online (SAHO).
Its work through effective media strategies through radio, television and print has reached several hundred thousand South Africans, and has undoubtedly been a key transformation project in post-apartheid South African education on race equality and human rights.