Tshwarelo Forgiveness and Reconciliation: South Africa's gift to a divided world

A two-week intensive program  

For administrators, educators and others in Catholic schools

A unique opportunity

  • To meet people who have made history
  • To have first hand experience of the profound transforming effect of forgiveness in society
  • To link the South African experience with the biblical tradition
  • To explore what this could mean for your home situation

Five two-day segments each including

  • Input by key presenters: people who were there
  • Excursions to places of significance in Soweto, Johannesburg and Pretoria
  • Biblical and theological reflection

 

A range of individual and group processes.
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Hector 2008 Tshwarelo group
group relaxed

 

 

Presenters include:

Antoinette Sithole - the woman in the photograph below - Sister of Hector Peter-sen, the first schoolboy killed in the student protest in Soweto on 16 June 1976.  

 Antoinette Sithole

Photo by Sam Nzima used with permission

 

Presenters in previous programs included also Sheena Duncan, an active member of the  Black Sash movement, Shelagh Mary Waspe, a Holy Family Sister who was one of the many church workers active in the Struggle, Tim Smith, a pastor in KwaZulu-Natal during the transition to the New South Africa, and Jasmin Sooka, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners, presently Director of the Foundation for Human Rights and others…

Also Sunday Mass and meal with a family in Soweto

Lunch with family in soweto

 

after sharing a meal

 

Apartheid Museum

 
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