INTERGRATIONAL LEARNING, INFORMED FUTURE
ABOUT HERP NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION
BACKGROUND -HERP TEAM
Heritage Education and Research Project was founded on 11 April 2022, by five individuals from Langa, Gugulethu, Heideveld, Manenberg, and Nyanga, to:
Record the history of community facilities such as community centers/halls, stadiums, and open fields used as a hub of activities for young and old people in sports, arts and culture. All HERP members are volunteers .
OUR VISION - APPROACH - MISSION
Our Vision
Intergrational dialogue for a secure future
Our Approach
Record the history of community facilities such as community centers/halls, stadiums, and open fields that were used as hubs of activities for young and old people in arts, culture, and sports and individuals who are products of these facilities and some are national icons.
Educate young people on the role played by these facilities in the development of these different communities and in bringing different communities across racial lines together through arts, culture, and sporting activities. To have strong moral generation focus with community problem solving skills in mechanism through bringing community divide.
Our Mission
Through moral regeneration, ensuring active, committed, and participatory citizens, safe and thriving communities.
HERP: EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM & BOARD MEMBERS
Whitey Jacobs - Chairperson
Project management, strategic planning, and evaluation, organisational development, and governance.
Nontsika Mnothoza - Deputy Chairperson
Community Development and Governance.
Timothy Tukwayo - Secretary
Business and Administration Management.
Nosipho Poswa Nteyi -Deputy Secretary
Educator, Assistant coach of the South African women's rugby team (under 18), and Community developer with numerous clubs, provinces, and national achievements.
Mawonga Labase - Treasurer
Management and organisational development.
Ntombizine Mayiya - Board Member
Bookkeeper and Financial Accounting Skills
Ayanda Mpono - Board Member
Facilitation and heritage management.
Geoffrey Mamputa - Board Member
Facilitation, organisational development, and governance .
HERP - community heritage ambassadors
About the program
Herp has recruited youth between the ages 15 and 21 to encourage youth from Cape Flats communities (Gugulethu, Nyanga, Langa, Heideveld and Manenberg) to get involved in oral history projects to establish both the commonalities and differences in people’s experiences of apartheid. To train them to research and present the life-stories and tangible objects from personal archives (memorabilia, photos, certificates, newspaper cuttings, etc.), as these relate to highlighting the history and heritage of significant sites with elders / veterans from the community.
Purpose
To establish both commonalities and differences in people's experiences with community recreational facilities. To vitalize the stories a nd memories of significant community recreational facilities that have come invisible or that have been erased in some ways from the community experience or association
Community Heritage Ambassadors Programme
- To produce oral and community histories in relation to community recreational facilities in formats that can rendered for peer educational purposes,
- To organize youth educational programs the role ofcommunity recreational facilities,
- To ensure that there are inter-generational sessions,
- To record oral histories and memories on the role communityrecreational facilites
Learning areas
The main areas of learning will be the following:
• Research, writing and communication
• Photography and videography
• Heritage Route development
• Exhibition design
• Events Management
Opportunities for experience in the use of the following specific skills:
• Interview skills.
• Videography and photography as a form of storytelling
• Portrait photography (using the Van Kalker, George Halett, Heseltine and Huiskombuis collections as references)
• Research practice (archival exploration and creation)
• Curatorial practise
• Production (recording / documenting, editing, mixing and presentation)
HERP FUNDERS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE
2022/2023 FINANCIAL YEAR
2022/2023 FINANCIAL YEAR
2022/2023 FINANCIAL YEAR
HERP wants to acknowledge the Department of Sports, arts, and culture for the following funding:
R 200,000.00.
R 50,000.00
2023/2024 FINANCIAL YEAR
2022/2023 FINANCIAL YEAR
2022/2023 FINANCIAL YEAR
HERP wants to acknowledge the Department of Sports, arts, and culture for the following funding:
- R540,000.00 (CHA Stipent)
2023/2024 FINANCIAL YEAR
2023/2024 FINANCIAL YEAR
2023/2024 FINANCIAL YEAR
HERP wants to acknowledge the City of Cape Town for the sum amount of R 139,447.00
2024/2025 FINANCIAL YEAR
2023/2024 FINANCIAL YEAR
2023/2024 FINANCIAL YEAR
HERP wants to acknowledge the National Lottories Commission for the sum amount of R 451,000.00
GOING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE, IKHWEZI COMMUNITY CENTRE
GOING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE: 17 NOVEMBER 2024