This video explores a series of conversations between groups of young people from South Africa, Uganda, Namibia, Nothern Ireland, Jordan, Scotland and Sweden as they discuss challenges, conflicts and issues that affect themselves and the societies in which they live.

The booklet accompanying the video, produced by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, provides detailed lesson plans and assessment activities for teachers who wish to use the material in their Life Orientation and Language lessons or as preparation for the CTA examinations in those areas

"Making a Difference" focuses into the lives of those whites who are making a positive contribution to transcending old barriers, showing how individuals and communities in unexpected places are promoting national reconciliation. It ignores the whingers and whiners who hog the news headlines.

In 1985, the police in Cradock killed four community activists. These men, known as the Cradock Four, became a national symbol of resistance and heroes in the struggle against apartheid. The video tells the story of Nyameka Goniwe, one of the Cradock Four widows, who reflects on the life of her husband, Mathew Goniwe. It includes an interview with the man who gave the signal for him to be killed. 'There's nothing he can give me,' Nyameka observes. 'All I'm looking for is a signal of the man's humanity. If I encounter that, I am obliged, as a vulnerable human being, to explore the possibility of reconciliation.' The video raises profound questions about nation-building, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

A new generation of young South Africans is learning to trust one another. They are "moving on", working together, taking up the challenge of past division in the name of making democracy. This video explores ways that youth confront and challenge prejudice. Divided by the memory of apartheid, still strangers to one another, they explore ways to create common ground and understanding. They consider what is involved in the creation of a nation that is inclusive of all South Africans. To what extent does the past continue to shape the present? How can young people create something new?

The Institute signed a partnership agreement with the Talent Consortium Limited in Johannesburg to co-produce four ten-minute episodes for the “Beyond Our Borders” magazine programme.  This co-production resulted in the coverage in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, the Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  Deciding to give attention to ‘what can be done’ to promote reconciliation, the episodes covered: the Institute’s 2002 Reconciliation Award to Pieter Dirk Uys, the African-Asian Fellowship programme, a programme on reconciliation and the arts, and positive attempts to redress the land problem in South Africa.