From apartheid to empire: how (post)apartheid South Africa became an anti-poor black society
SOURCE: PINS (Psychology in society)
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): B.Zuma
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), FANON, FRANTZ, NEOLIBERALISM, VIOLENCE
DEPARTMENT: Impact Centre (IC), Impact Centre (PRESS), Impact Centre (CC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12795
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/18883
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/18883
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): B.Zuma
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), FANON, FRANTZ, NEOLIBERALISM, VIOLENCE
DEPARTMENT: Impact Centre (IC), Impact Centre (PRESS), Impact Centre (CC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12795
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/18883
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/18883
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Abstract
Using psycho-political analysis as a method of seeing and interpreting, this essay meditates on why and how Frantz Fanon's observation that "the Black is not a [hu]man" is true in (post)apartheid South Africa. In particular, the essay is concerned with the histo-political circumstances that make Fanon's observation true for poor black people. And to this end, the essay argues that local and international white-monopoly capital orchestrated a psycho-political defeat and co-option of the ANC well ahead of the 1994 democratic elections. Consequently, South Africa transitioned from apartheid into recolonisation as a satellite of the empire of capital thus, closing all prospects of a decent and dignified life for poor black people. Using a newspaper article as an illustrative example, the essay analyses the lived experience of poor black people as a consequence of the ANC's psychopolitical defeat and custodianship of capital imperialism in South Africa. In this, the essay shows the violence of the ANC government on poor black people and the fate of the latter as a disposable population of the empire of capital.-
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