“Are We Afrikaners Getting too Rich?”<sup>1</sup> Cornucopia and Change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960s

Grundlingh, Albert

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6443.2008.00333.x

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“…Only two. The rest were working on the railways, on the army … And eventually more and more became business people.Supporting this point, Grundlingh () documents an increasing differentiation among Afrikaners in the 1960s, with cars and other consumer goods marking important points of distinction (on white prosperity in this period see also Seekings and Nattrass ; chapter 4).…”

Section: Afrikaans Schoolsmentioning

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The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa

Hunter¹

2015

J Historical Sociology

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In the early 1990s, privileged "white" South African public schools began to admit "black" pupils. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival sources related to formerly-white schools in Durban, this article addresses two main questions: first, why did white parents so enthusiastically vote for schooling desegregation when apartheid was still in place?; and second, why, over time, did intense competition emerge between schools, and become so focused on improving sports results? In addressing these questions this study takes an historical-geographical approach, paying particular attention to two areas of Durban: the middle-class central Berea area and the more working-class areas in Durban's south. This story begins in the 1950s, a period of major schooling expansion and urban segregation, tracing how a hierarchy of white schools developed in relation to the city's uneven geographies of race and class. It is this schooling hierarchy and the way it became contested in the 1990s that is key to understanding the schools' shift from "cooperative desegregation" to "aggressive competition." More broadly, the article argues that education provides a window into key post-apartheid tensions -namely between the deracialization of privilege, the continued dividend of whiteness, and efforts to redistribute resources to the poor. Finally, in an age of mass education, it argues that the actions of schools play an important role in shaping raced and classed divisions in society.

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Section: Afrikaans Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa

Hunter¹

2015

J Historical Sociology

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“…It brought class differentiation among Afrikaners. In the 1960s, the NP was ambivalent about the impact of consumption on Afrikaner identity, with its potential to develop a cosmopolitanism that could undermine its cross-class ethnic support base (Grundlingh 2008).…”

Section: The 'Shop Girl': Domesticating Apartheid Consumptionmentioning

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Retail, the service worker and the polity: attaching labour and consumption

Kenny

2015

Critical Arts

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This article argues for viewing debates about consumption -here specifically focused on retail spaces -as attachments to fantasies about participation. It uses the figure of the service worker as index, tracking how she appears and disappears at different historical moments in South African public discussions on consumption. Discussing four moments of debate where the service worker is represented in relation to commitments to consumption, the article argues that the figure stands in (variously) for what is at stake in claims to service and retail spaces. Paying attention to the shifting and sometimes shadowy figure of this worker in public debate, we can begin to comment on the longer history of ambivalence toward consumption, linked to labour, as well as recent triumphant claims to access to the market as sphere of democracy, for instance, in Wal-Mart's entry to South Africa.

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“…Cultural guardians feared that prosperous whites were becoming "worshippers of Mammon", and that the trappings of wealth and prestige had become the altars upon which traditional white (Afrikaner) values and volk unity were sacrificed. 30 As Du Pisani and Grundlingh argue, these fears were not unfounded: economic growth and the rise of an educated white middle class steadily corroded the dream of a "single-minded, abstemious 'volk' prepared to make considerable sacrifices on behalf of a greater ideal." 31 The erosion of the homogenising forces of Afrikaner nationalism intensified during the 1970s, and was aggravated exponentially by the ferment of the Soweto Uprising and renewed anti-apartheid resistance.…”

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The Devil Rejoiced: Volk, Devils and Moral Panic in White South Africa, 1978–1982

Dunbar¹,

Swart²

2014

J Historical Sociology

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The first four years of P.W. Botha's premiership in apartheid South Africa were plagued by intra-party politicking, renewed anti-apartheid resistance, economic instability, and Satan. Between 1978 and 1982, the heavy political rhetoric of "total onslaught" inflected perceived "moral onslaught" in a virulent moral panic over Satanism in white, and particularly Afrikaner, South Africa. With attention to its discursive and socio-political context, this paper seeks to explore the emergence of this distinct satanic moral panic in white South African history, arguing that it reflects the intense political and moral ambiguity of white society as the edifices of apartheid began to fracture.

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“Are We Afrikaners Getting too Rich?”¹ Cornucopia and Change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960s

Cited by 40 publications

References 8 publications

The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa

The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa

Retail, the service worker and the polity: attaching labour and consumption

The Devil Rejoiced: Volk, Devils and Moral Panic in White South Africa, 1978–1982

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“Are We Afrikaners Getting too Rich?”1 Cornucopia and Change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960s

Cited by 40 publications

References 8 publications

The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa

The Race for Education: Class, White Tone, and Desegregated Schooling in South Africa

Retail, the service worker and the polity: attaching labour and consumption

The Devil Rejoiced: Volk, Devils and Moral Panic in White South Africa, 1978–1982

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“Are We Afrikaners Getting too Rich?”¹ Cornucopia and Change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960s