Editorial
What started as a casual conversation between Moretele Times and the Temba Heritage Project, culminated into a journey down memory lane through the narrative of the snippets of the history and heritage of Temba since it was founded in 1942.
The positive reviews from our readership has prompted Moretele Times to create a regular column to publish heritage articles beyond the Black History Month of February.
Why so? Memory and history are important because they define how we identify and understand ourselves, as individuals and as communities, in the present and thus in the future. In this sense how these ‘memories’ are constructed and reconstructed is crucial to whom we are.
It will therefore be an exercise in futility to activate memory of our heritage, without invoking community action to re-imagine the future. If the Temba Black History Month series has created a sense of nostalgia from the present gone wrong, how do we then activate collective community action to re-imagine a better future?
After all it was a French, Philippe Aries who argued that “history deals with the horizon between the known and the unknown. It is memory that lures us to this horizon. Even the widest horizon of our knowledge is overwhelmed by the mysteries of what lies beyond”.
Our readers showed interest in topics relating to education, spitiruality, Temba as a college town, schools alumni and graduate database, recreating schools as recreation centres and collaborating with the business community in building recreation centres.
We will also focus on looking at Temba as a tourist destination in collaboration with Dinokeng, Influencing the Renaming of Temba Streets (Unit D, etc) to create cemory, research project on the history and heritage of the Temba Community and the hosting of an Annual Temba Heritage Event(s) during the Heritage Month.
All this content will lead us to a buildup of the celebration of the 80 year birthday of Temba in 2022.
Moretele Times once again extends an invitation to its readers and the Temba community at large to suggest any other viable proposals for community action towards the re-imagining and repositioning of Temba as “A Place of Hope and Prosperity”.
The theme for the month of March will focus on career guidance, an article on that subject is published elsewhere on this pages.
