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=// HOMEPAGE //= =//** Reconciliation in a Fishbowl **//=

// Grade 10, you have been hired as news commentators working on a round table discussion. (see video of Meet the Press) You have been asked to interview one of the names on the attached list. Once your interview and research is done your job is to communicate the nature and extent of impact this person contributed in the conflict between blacks and whites in South Africa. Please be an unbias news commentator and be ready to report both the positive and negative outcomes of their work. //

// You will be presenting this information on TV to teenage African viewers during a fishbowl session of exchange. The fishbowl strategy will be practiced and explained. //

// List of people to interview: // // · Afrikaner leaders: Louis Botha; Jan Smuts; JBM Herzog; Daniel Malan; (J.C. van Rooy); (Professor Tomlinson’s Report); Hendrik Verwoerd; John Vorster; P.W. Botha; F.W. de Klerk. // // · White dissenters: Beyers Naude; J.M. Coetzee; Ande Brink.

· Early black activists: John Dube; Sol Plaatje; Dr. P.K. Seme; Clements Kadalie.

· ANC leaders: A.B. Xuma; Anton Lembede; Walter Sisulu; Oliver Tambo; Dr. James Moroka; Albert Luthuli.

· Trevor Huddleston (British priest). Yusuf Dadoo. Robert Sobukwe(Pan-African Congress leader). Dr. A. Treurnicht (Afrikaner Conservative Party). Philip Kgosana. Allan Boesak. Mamphela Ramphele; Mapetla Mohapi; Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

· Female activists: Albertina Sisulu; Lilian Masediba Ngoyi; Helen Joseph; Winnie Mandela; Margaret Ballinger; Helen Suzman; Ruth First. // // A great website to find information about these people: http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm //