<p>This thesis falls within the category of historical studies that is concerned with a difficult legacy of South AfricaÌs liberation struggle, namely the practice of necklacing that accompanied it. My interest in the practice is limited to its emergence and politicising as it relates to the ANC, the UDF and the apartheid state. The ANC and the UDF overwhelmingly understood the practice as resistance, yet ambivalently so. The question guiding this thesis therefore asks: how is necklacing written into the narrative of struggle history? Here I refer to its (re)representation, its (re)characterisation, its (re)articulation in a wider discursive war of propaganda strategies that was waged through the interplay of an apartheid state discourse and what I consider to be an official non-state discourse, that of the ANC and the UDF.</p>
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UNWC/oai:UWC_ETD:http%3A%2F%2Fetd.uwc.ac.za%2Findex.php%3Fmodule%3Detd%26action%3Dviewtitle%26id%3Dgen8Srv25Nme4_8995_1299216595 |
Date | January 2010 |
Creators | Riedwaan Moosage |
Source Sets | Univ. of Western Cape |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis and dissertation |
Format | |
Coverage | ZA |
Rights | Copyright: University of the Western Cape |
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