Other responsibilities included screening textbooks to ensure alignments with the new curriculum and to propose history teacher development programmes.
National education spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said the task team would once again be led by Sifiso Ndlovu.
Mhlanga said Ndlovu had been given a mandate by Motshekga to “set the direction of history education for the country going forward”.
“Inside and outside of the education sector there has been a lot of excitement and anticipation regarding the overhaul of our history education in schools, which has been characterised by many as perpetuating a colonial or western perspective,” said Motshekga.
“I have absolute faith in the team of experts that is going to be forging the way forward in terms of how we teach our young people about the past.”
She believed that a “comprehensive, well-rounded and accurate teaching” of history would help learners understand themselves better.