the south african history project was established to promote and enhance the quality and status of the learning and teaching of history in schools and in higher education institutions: to encourage the recording of oral histories in a post-apartheid south africa; to discuss and devise strategies for the strengthening and improvement of history teaching in support of the new post-apartheid national curriculum statement; to establish initiatives that would bring history researchers and scholars together to review, revise and write new history books and materials for schools and to initiate activities that will resurrect interest in the study of history by young people. the curriculum review process resultant of these recommendations was led by dr linda chisholm.