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A Chronicle of Apartheid’s Propaganda War on Black America
By: Ron Nixon New York Times correspondent Ron Nixon has written a remarkable account of how the Apartheid government repeatedly attempted to win the hearts and minds of African Americans. |
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South Africa’s Propaganda War: The Information Campaign to Influence the United States of America: 1972-1978
By: J.K. Haasbroek, J-A. Stemmet, and M. Oelofse This article will focus on campaigns undertaken by the Department of Information that influenced the ‘hearts and minds’ of American decision makers and opinion formers, as well as the public regarding South Africa’s ‘realities’ |
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By: Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela’s early life, coming of age, education, and 27 years spent in prison in South Africa. |
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From ‘Mother of the Nation’ to ‘Lady Macbeth’: Winnie Mandela and Perceptions of Female Violence in South Africa, 1985-1991 (journal article)
By: E. Bridger Winnie Mandela repeatedly centered her public persona around her identity as a mother; first, in order to highlight how her maternal duties mandated her militant engagement with the apartheid state; and later in order to deny the accusations laid against her while on trial by arguing that a mother inherently predisposed to peaceful behavior couldn’t possibly have committed the atrocities of which she was accused. |
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Chapters 1-5
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa By: Mark Mathabane Born under apartheid, Mark Mathabane learned to measure his life in days, not years, until he won a scholarship to attend a university in the U.S. |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
By: Trevor Noah Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show (a late-night, satirical news show) began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a Black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of apartheid, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. |
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The Blood Knot
By: Athol Fugard The play features only two characters: half-brothers Morris and Zachariah share the same mother, who is black. However, because Morris's father is white, his skin is far lighter than his brother's, allowing him to pass for a white man. Having lived for a few years as a white man, Morris returns to the "colored" section of Port Elizabeth to live with Zachariah. Desperately lonely for female companionship, Zachariah carries on a pen pal relationship with a white girl who does not know he is black. When the girl insists on visiting, Zachariah allows the lighter-skinned Morris to pose as him to mitigate the risk of being arrested by the girl's brother, a policeman. |
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Post-Apartheid Identity
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Identity Crisis: Making Sense of Post-Apartheid Relationships Between Whiteness and Antiracism
By: Justin Bradshaw This independent study project sought to explore white South African antiracist identities during post-apartheid South Africa and how the ways of making meaning of an antiracist identity contribute to and reflect the conceptual frameworks that already exist. Furthermore, this study intended to illuminate how white identifying antiracist persons in post-apartheid South Africa can be allies in the struggle for a more racially equitable society. |
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Hope and Future: Youth Identity Shaping in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By: Lundgren, B., Scheckle, E. South African township youth were invited to take photographs and engage in reflective writing to explain the significance of what they had photographed. The students’ photos and texts showed that democracy, family, present context and culture, have most influence on young people's lives. |
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Transforming Sport and Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Nation State
By: David Maralack This dissertation examines processes of state restructuring and nation-state building in post-apartheid South Africa through the lens of sport policies and institutions. The post-apartheid state used sports to nurture post-apartheid identity, overcome economic inequalities, racial cleavages, and foster civic participation at the same time. However, contestations have pervaded sport transformation in South Africa from apartheid to the present. |
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Identity, inequality and social contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa
By: Hiroyuki Hino, Murray Leibbrandt, Ratjomose Machema, Muna Shifa and Crain Soudien This paper offers some evidence that South Africans became less exclusive of people in other race groups during the early years of post- Apartheid period but have reversed this accomplishment over the last ten years. The paper then holistically examines inequality in the post-apartheid period; namely, at national level, between and within ethnic and race groups, and measured by income and by self-assessment of an individual’s life satisfaction. It identifies “inequality hot spots” on this basis, which need to be addressed if a more cohesive society is to be nurtured in the country. Finally, the paper finds tentative signs of the emergence of a common citizenry, a national identity, which would also be needed for South Africa to transition to a cohesive society. |
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Whiteness, Racism, and Afrikaner Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By: Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle This article explores the production of post-apartheid Afrikaner identity in South Africa. The authors investigate the participants’ dilemmas and struggles over their identity as Afrikaners, South Africans, and Africans, and the ways in which these identities are being redefined. While the participants rejected many stereotypes of Afrikaner identity, they simultaneously recycled key discourses underlying apartheid ideology, particularly discourses of Black incompetence and whites under threat. Participants generally claimed status as ‘Africans’ but strongly resisted assimilation with ‘Africa’ or a broader African identity. The article concludes that the construction of the Afrikaner community as embattled and systematically oppressed might provide powerful support for extremism. |
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From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’: Explaining Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By: Michael Neocosmos The events of May 2008 in which 62 people were killed simply for being "foreign" and thousands were turned overnight into refugees shook the South African nation. This book is the first to attempt a comprehensive and rigorous explanation for those horrific events. It argues that xenophobia should be understood as a political discourse and practice. Xenophobia’s conditions of existence, the book argues, are to be found in the politics of post-apartheid nationalism where state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in conditions of an overwhelmingly passive conception of citizenship. |
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