Hello everyone, today is our last day in South Africa. It has been a month of great and small transformations, but mostly of seeing these young bright and respectful students feeling the joy and pain of activism and activism’s limits. It was not possible for all of them to write a dispatch but they all wanted to, so as a gesture of getting as many people to say a word, I have five short pieces. The first is Lys Inungu’s piece entitled the Spirit of Soweto, next is Aaron Handelsman’s One Big Hill, followed by Beyond All Barriers by Bharat Modi, Lesson in Forgiveness by Erika Purcell-Williams and finally a piece by Christina Juan entitled Freedom and Democracy through Simple Language.
This is a little longer than usual, but they are worth reading because it is a pleasure to see such reflections from these young hearts and minds. If you have the time you will be delighted.
Signing off, Nesha Z. Haniff for the Pedagogy of Action 2007.
