Apartheid, Democracy and (De)coloniality at the Crossroad

Modimowabarwa Kanyane

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Pages:: 346–364

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004515949_015

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Abstract

After close to three decades of democracy, South Africa cannot be expected to achieve what other countries took many years to accomplish. However, South Africa was supposed to learn from the pitfalls of the post-colonial states that emerged from colonialism. Regrettably, that was not the case. Instead, it followed the same trajectory of many post-colonial countries entangled in selfish interests and corruption. Western epistemologies shaped the South African democracy that was born in 1994. Today, apartheid, democracy and (de-)coloniality at the crossroad is a discourse informed by the ills of the past, such as white supremacy, white privileges, and white monopoly capital, which defines the privileged position whites continue to have and that they have inherited from centuries of colonialism and apartheid. The collapse of the apartheid government and the launch of the democratic government in 1994 achieved political freedom, but failed to achieve the benefits that would have derived from economic freedom for the previously oppressed majority. What was supposed to be a paradise became a paradise lost. This chapter calls for reversal of colonialism. A narrative analysis was employed to conceptualise and inform discussion on pertinent issues of apartheid, democracy and (de-)coloniality understood to be at the crossroads. The chapter proposes substantive equality and social justice, the de-colonisation of the mind through ubuntu as a pan African philosophical thought, reconciliation, national unity and economic freedom to bring about racial closure to achieve a non-racial society.

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Paradise Lost

Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa

Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Volume: 28

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004515949

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 Jun 2022

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Part 1 White Privilege and the Racialised Power Structure in South Africa

Part 2 The Manifestation of Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa

Part 3 Race and Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa

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