24 Years of Participation and Record Entries in Holocaust Centre’s Annual Creative Competition

Rustenburg entered the Holocaust Centre’s Annual Creative Competition for the 24th year with a record amount of entries from our Grade 11 History learners.  The creative projects were an extension of the Grade 11 Heritage Research Investigation on Apartheid.  

Student representatives and staff attended the Award Ceremony on Sunday, 13 August at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, where RGHS walked away with several awards. We were commended for both our long participation in the event as well as having the most entrants and most prize winners.

The competition was sponsored by the Ackerman Group and awards were handed out by Kathy Ackerman Robins. The evening was memorialized by the attendance of numerous artists and novelists who acted as judges. The exhibition of artwork will be up until the end of August.

The awards as follows:


Senior Art:


1st Place: Dominique Porter & Salem O’Connor

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Spoken word


1st Place: Rachel Kane, Lucy Tough, Gemma Forbes & Tamsyn Arendse

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“Together”

A Certificate of Merit was awarded to Inga Jwaai

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God Blessed South Africa


Senior Writing:


1st Place: Haanim Samaai – “The Girl in the Mirror”
2nd Place: Zoë Valentine – “Burnt”
2nd Place: Lucy Wood – “Remember to Remember”
3rd Place: Mia Botha – “Bly stil”

Special Award

A Special Award went to Sharifa Ebrahim for her documentary on District Six, ‘Save Our Land’.

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