A statue of Oliver Tambo in South Africa

A Scheme of Legitimation: South Africa’s Revisionism

Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) government is exhibiting the past in the present by forging narratives, images, metaphors and symbols to create a specific perspective. The purpose of that perspective is to make sense of the past in ways that render their actions in the present more plausible. . . .

A South African flag waved on Heritage Day

Heritage Day – What heritage are we celebrating?

The deliberate obfuscation by the ruling elites of post-94 to address economic and racial injustice by racializing justice continues the white power structure. It is a continuous trajectory of prioritising transformation over decolonisation. . . .