Prepared for a world that no longer exists : white Afrikaner males revise identity for a transformed world

Leitch, Roberta Ann

Prepared for a world that no longer exists : white Afrikaner males revise identity for a transformed world

Master Thesis

2006

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Social Anthropology

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

Following the peaceful transition in 1994 from apartheid to democracy, and the political realignment of power from the Afrikaner minority to the Black majority, South Africa has been thrust into a social climate of radical and far reaching change. As one formerly advantaged group in the new dispensation, white Afrikaners are facing new and often bewildering challenges as they struggle to carve out an appropriate space for themselves in the new political ethos of non-racialism and equality for all. This study examines how a particular group of white Afrikaner men between the ages of 28-42 in the town of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, are negotiating their way in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-87).

Keywords

Social Anthropology

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