the south african history project formed national and provincial networks, communication and advocacy initiatives and organised roundtables in all provinces, in rural and urban areas with local civic organisations, teacher organisations, museums, heritage activists, parents, traditional leaders, oral history projects, local government, libraries and archives. the project managed to achieve its strategic aims under the direction of its ceo, dr june bam and the chair of the ministerial committee, professor yonah seleti (currently co-ordinator of the national indigenous knowledge systems network in south africa) and the committee members of prominent south african historians and academics: dr luli callinicos (author of "the world that made mandela"); professor uma mesthrie-dhupelia (well known historian and a member of the gandhi family); dr sifiso ndlovu; dr nomathamsanqa tisani; professor albert grundlingh; professor jeff guy; professor jeff pieres; archaeologist amanda esterhuysen; and a teacher, lindi nqonji. amongst its various strategic achievements, the project conducted national audits of history books used in schools and of archaeologists and historians in south africa. some of the key publications include an update of the unesco general history of africa, and the 6-volume series "turning points in south african history" in collaboration with the institute for justice and reconciliation, winner of the unesco prize for peace education 2008. it has also worked with the parliamentary millennium project on perspectives on and of africa, and with the ngo south african history online (saho). important publications included the teacher's guides for the unesco africa history volumes, distributed to all schools and libraries and the "towards new histories for south africa" publication edited by dr shamil jeppie.