“…No immediate re-writing of the school history curriculum took place after the end of apartheid in 1994. Instead an interim revision of school syllabuses, to 'remove inaccuracies, outdated and contentious content' (Sieborger, 2000), 'cleansed' the curriculum of the most offensive bits of racism, buying time for a more radical process of re-curriculation to be enacted.ThedetailsoftheSouthAfricanpost-apartheidcurriculumreformprocesshavebeen well documented elsewhere (Jansen, 1999;Chisholm, 2004;Hoadley, 2011). For almost a decade,however,theschoolsubject'History'waslostinacul-de-sacofintegratedstudiesand outcomes-basededucation,whichprivilegedformoversubstanceandmarkedthetriumphof forgettingovermemory.…”