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Ubu and Ubuntu: On the dialectics of apartheid and nation building

Pages 49-69 | Published online: 18 Aug 2010

  • Jarry , Alfred . 1987 . Ubu, Gesammelte Werke 124 Frankfurt Here and throughout the article, all translations are my own
  • Taylor , Jane . 1998 . Ubu and the Truth Commission iv Cape Town
  • Coetzer , J.P.J. 2000 . Gister se Dade, Vandag se Oordeel Pretoria which reveals clearly the inability to learn from the past that has become common currency among the former political elite
  • 1998 . Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Vol. 1 , Cape Town Chapter S
  • Jeffery , Anthea . 1999 . The Truth about the Truth Commission Johannesburg For a critique, which is understandable from a purely juridical point of view but politically questionable, see
  • Smit , J.H. 1999 . “ Ubuntu for Africa: A Christian Interpretation ” . In (1999) Ubuntu in a Christian Perspective (Institute for Reformational Studies , Scientific Contributions of the PU for CHE, Series F1, No. 374 Edited by: Smit , J.H. , Deacon , M. and Shutte , A. 1 Potchefstroom University .
  • 1998 . Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Vol. 1 , Cape Town Chapter 5
  • Elias , Norbert . 1996 . Was ist Soziologie? Munich Compare, for example, the 'figuration sociology' of
  • Elias . 1994 . Die Gesellschaft der Individuen Frankfurt
  • Mbigi , Lovemore and Maree , Jenny . 1995 . Ubuntu: The Spirit of African Transformation Management 120ff Randburg
  • Shutte , Augustine . 1993 . Philosophy for Africa 26ff 46ff Cape Town
  • Ncgobo , Dumisane . 1999 . 'Nihilism in Black South Africa: The New South Africa and the Destruction of the Black Domestic Periphery' . Alternation , 6 (1) : 138 – 54 . 146
  • Wilsworth , Mercia Joan . 1980 . Strategies for Survival: Transcending the Culture of Poverty in a Black South African Township , Institute of Social and Economic Research, Occasional Papers No. 24 411 – 17 . Grahamstown : Rhodes University . On Ubuntu and the solidarity in South African township communities, see
  • Ross , Fiona C. Umntu Ngumntu Ngabanye Abantu: The Support Networks of Black Families in South Africa 41 ff
  • Tutu , Desmond . 1999 . No Future Without Forgiveness 34ff London
  • Krog , Antjie . 1998 . Country of my Skull 111 153 London
  • Meiring , Piet . 1999 . Chronicle of the Truth Commission 27f Vanderbijlpark
  • Adorno , Theodor W. 1982 . Negative Dialektik 146 Frankfurt
  • Kadalie . 2000 . Weekly Mail and Guardian , 10 November 'I am told that as a coloured I must keep quiet. … I was told at an Open Society Foundation board meeting: "You coloureds were always more privileged than us--and therefore you have no right to apply for this job" '
  • Kadalie . 2000 . 'Use your Vote to Fight a One-Party State' . Mail and Guardian , 10 November Krisjan Lemmer). When Kadalie points to shortcomings in the new South African democracy, she is regularly abused and lectured too by functionaries of the ANC. See, for example
  • Kota , Nomfanelo . 2000 . 'Kadalie Can't Accept Good ANC-Led Government' . Mail and Guardian , 17 November
  • Degenaar , Johan J. "The Myth of a South African Nation' ” . IDASA Occasional Paper, No. 40 Cape Town
  • Degenaar . 1990 . 'Nation-Building: An Example of Outdated Thinking?,' . Democracy in Action , June/July : 8 – 10 .
  • Barber , Benjamin . 1984 . Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age 218ff Berkeley
  • Butler , Anthony . 2000 . 'Is South Africa Heading towards Authoritarian Rule? Instability Myths and Expectation Traps in a New Democracy' . Politikon , 27 (2) : 189 – 205 .
  • Marx , Christoph . 1997 . ' "History comes full circle": Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Mandela über Nation und Ethnizität in Afrika' . Historische Zeitschrift , 265 (2) : 373 – 93 .
  • Mbeki , Thabo . 1998 . Africa: The Time has Come: Selected Speeches 31 – 6 . Cape Town
  • Marx , Christoph . 1998 . 'Im Zeichen des Ochsenwagens: Der radikale AfrikaanerNationalismus in Südafrika und die Geschichte der Ossewahrandwag' 174ff Münster
  • 'Ons demokratiese tradisie' . Koers , 13 (1) 9 – 21 . In 1945, G.F. de Vos Hugo wrote that any person 'can resist any order that is contrary to God's Law.' See
  • du Preez , D.C.S. 1945 . 'Indiwidu en gemeenskap' . Koers , 10 (3) : 104 – 8 .
  • Diederichs , Nicolaas . 1936 . Nasionalisme as Lewenbeskouing en sy Verhouding tot Internasionalisme 17 Bloemfontein
  • For instance, Steyn asserted that 'Nationalism is that power, through which the different nations preserve their respective characters, and as such, it is a healthy impulse for the national life' (H.J. Steyn (1929) 'Die Status van die Unie getoets aan die beginsels van Suid-Afrikaanse nasionalisme: Die betekenis van die ou en nuwe artiekel IV (Potchefstroom), p. 35.
  • Boesak . 1979 . 'Open Letter to the Minister of Justice' . S.A. Outlook , 110 : 133 In Boesak's writings one can find a number of other fundamentalist dichotomies, i.e. between Satan (who equals the Apartheid government) and the Church of God, which serve to legitimate resistance and are linked to millenarian prophecies of the end of evil. See
  • Boesak , Allan A. 1979 . 'If This is Treason, I am Guilty' . : 122ff 128f References to the rights of the South African people remain secondary
  • Bozzoli , Belinda . 1998 . 'Public Ritual and Private Transition: The Truth Commission in Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1996' . African Studies , 57 (2) : 167 – 95 . Compare also Tutu's statement as Chairman of the Commission during a hearing: 'Is there anything else you would like to say Mrs Wheeler because you are speaking to the nation about this event?' Cited in
  • Bock , Mary , McCormick , Kay and Raffray , Claudine . 30 August 2000 . “ 'Fractured Truths: Multiple Discourse in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings' ” . 30 August , 7 Graduate School of Humanities, UCT . unpublished Seminar Paper
  • Niethammer , Lutz . 2000 . Kollektive Identität: Heimliche Quellen einer unheimlichen Konjunktur Reinbek
  • Dahrendorf , Ralf . 1994 . Der Moderne Soziale Konflikt: Essay zur Politik der Freiheit Munich
  • Coser , Lewis A. 1972 . The Functions of Social Conflict Glencoe, Ill.
  • Luhmann , Niklas . 1993 . “ 'Individuum, Individualität, Individualismus' ” . In Gesellschaftsstruktur und Semantik: Studien zur Wissensoziologie der modernen Gesellschaft Vol. 3 , 149 – 258 . Frankfurt in ibid.
  • Ncgobo , Dumisane . 1999 . 'Nihilism in Black South Africa: The New South Africa and the Destruction of the Black Domestic Periphery' . Alternation , 6 (1) : 138 – 54 . Early discourses of class struggle are substituted with culturalist and ethnocentric ones. Dumisane Ncgobo locates the cause of this phenomenon, which he identifies as 'nihilism in Black South Africa', in a cultural alienation brought about by a 'market culture.' See
  • Adorno , Theodor W. 1974 . Philosophische Terminologie Vol. 2 , 197f Frankfurt
  • Hanekom , T.N. 1948/49 . 'Die liberalisme en sy invloed in Suid-Afrika' . Koers , 16 : 1 – 6 . 36 – 41 . 125 – 30 .
  • Stoker , Hendrik G. 1941 . Die Stryd am die Ordes 51 62 Potchefstroom
  • Cronjé , Geoffrey . 1945 . 'n Tuiste vir die Nageslag . : 21f 35
  • University of the Orange Free State, Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Diederichs Collection: PV 546/6/2/51, Notes on Sociology, handwritten note.
  • Luhmann , Niklas . 1997 . Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft 634ff 413ff Frankfurt on his use of the concept of evolution: Chapter 3
  • Sontheimer , Kurt . 1978 . Antidemokratisches Denken in der Weimarer Republik 250ff Munich
  • Mokgoro , Yvonne . 1998 . “ 'Ubuntu and the Law in South Africa' ” . In 1998 The African Renaissance , Occasional Papers Edited by: Stiftung , Konrad Adenauer . 49 – 53 . Johannesburg But one is still confronted with the problem that the unwanted and sexist aspects of 'customary law' have to be manipulated innovatively to fit into the framework of the democratic constitution. See
  • Maloka , Tshidiso . 1996 . 'Populism and the Politics of Chieftaincy and Nation-Building in the New South Africa' . Journal of Contemporary African Studies , 14 (2) : 173 – 96 . 190 A highly instructive paper on these developments and examples is
  • Ossewabrandwag . 1942 . Gesonde Huisgesinne Bau 'n Lewenskragtige Volk! Amptelike Gesinsbeleid van die Ossewabrandwag 1 Stellenbosch
  • Ossewabrandwag-Archiv . H.M. van der Westhuysen-Collection 2/13 'Maatskaplike vraagstukke: Arbeidsbeleid' . 7
  • Mbeki , Thabo . 1998 . Africa: The Time has Come Cape Town The likelihood of such a renaissance occurring is discussed in
  • Stremlau , John . 1999 . 'African Renaissance and International Relations' . South African Journal of International Affairs , 6 (2) : 61 – 80 .
  • Eckert , Andreas . 1995 . “ 'Wem gehört das Alte Ägypten? Die Geschichtsschreibung zu Afrika und das Werk Cheikh Anta Diops' ” . In (1995), Die Fundamentalistische Revolution: Partikularistische Bewegungen der Gegenwart und ihr Umgang mit der Geschichte Edited by: Reinhard , Wolfgang . 189 – 204 . 200f Freiburg
  • Kabou , Axelle . 1993 . Weder arm noch ohnmächtig: Eine Streitschrift gegen schwarze Eliten und weiße Helfer 154 Basel

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