In this episode I chat with Wilhelm Verwoerd, a leading researcher in the field of reconciliation, apology and more recently, “white work” in SA. He was a researcher in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has since dedicated his life to exploring and facilitating forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Wilhelm is also the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is widely regarded as the architect of apartheid. He experienced this very unique incarnation of being born into a family at the political, social and spiritual center of apartheid, and then he managed to transcend the limitations of his cultural conditioning to become a leader in the field of reconciliation. For me, he provides us with a hopeful example of what white people in SA can do to finally start healing our own trauma as well as all the trauma we’ve caused with our heritage of slavery, colonialism and most recently, apartheid.
Links to some of Wilhelm’s work:
Research Papers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361301084_Diagnosing_and_dismantling_South_African_whiteness_'white_work'_in_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344199861_Black_Christ_and_Cross-Roads_Jesus_for_white_South_African_Christians
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285005.Wilhelm_Verwoerd
Learn more about my work:
https://www.odendaalesterhuyse.com/
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In this episode I chat with Wilhelm Verwoerd, a leading researcher in the field of reconciliation, apology and more recently, “white work” in SA. He was a researcher in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has since dedicated his life to exploring and facilitating forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Wilhelm is also the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is widely regarded as the architect of apartheid. He experienced this very unique incarnation of being born into a family at the political, social and spiritual center of apartheid, and then he managed to transcend the limitations of his cultural conditioning to become a leader in the field of reconciliation. For me, he provides us with a hopeful example of what white people in SA can do to finally start healing our own trauma as well as all the trauma we’ve caused with our heritage of slavery, colonialism and most recently, apartheid.
Links to some of Wilhelm’s work:
Research Papers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361301084_Diagnosing_and_dismantling_South_African_whiteness_'white_work'_in_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344199861_Black_Christ_and_Cross-Roads_Jesus_for_white_South_African_Christians
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285005.Wilhelm_Verwoerd
Learn more about my work:
https://www.odendaalesterhuyse.com/
My first guest is Vuyiswa Xekatwane, a writer and iSangoma based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this part of the conversation she shares what it was like to receive the calling, how she tried to resist it at first but eventually accepted it as her journey. She shares some details about what the initiation process was like for her and we explore how different things are for young initiates now, living in this modernized and industrialized world.
Both Are True
In this episode I chat with Wilhelm Verwoerd, a leading researcher in the field of reconciliation, apology and more recently, “white work” in SA. He was a researcher in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has since dedicated his life to exploring and facilitating forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Wilhelm is also the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is widely regarded as the architect of apartheid. He experienced this very unique incarnation of being born into a family at the political, social and spiritual center of apartheid, and then he managed to transcend the limitations of his cultural conditioning to become a leader in the field of reconciliation. For me, he provides us with a hopeful example of what white people in SA can do to finally start healing our own trauma as well as all the trauma we’ve caused with our heritage of slavery, colonialism and most recently, apartheid.
Links to some of Wilhelm’s work:
Research Papers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361301084_Diagnosing_and_dismantling_South_African_whiteness_'white_work'_in_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344199861_Black_Christ_and_Cross-Roads_Jesus_for_white_South_African_Christians
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285005.Wilhelm_Verwoerd
Learn more about my work:
https://www.odendaalesterhuyse.com/
