1st Edition

South African Homelands as Frontiers Apartheid’s Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era

Edited By Steffen Jensen, Olaf Zenker Copyright 2017
186 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores what happened to the homelands – in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace – after the fall of apartheid. This research contributes to understanding the multiple configurations that currently exist in areas formerly declared "homelands" or "Bantustans". Using the concept of frontier zones, the homelands emerge as areas in which the future of the South African postcolony is... Read more

1. South African Homelands as Frontiers: Apartheid’s Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era – An Introduction
Steffen Jensen and Olaf Zenker

2. Fragments of the Past: Homeland Politics and the South African Transition, 1990–2014
Jason Robinson

3. Material Remains: Artifice versus Artefact(s) in the Archive of Bantustan Rule
Shireen Ally

4. This House Is Not My Own …! Temporalities in a South African Homeland
Steffen Jensen

5. Custom, Normativity and Authority in South Africa
Hylton White

6. South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele
Olaf Zenker

7. ‘Women Use their Strength in the House’: Savings Clubs in an Mpumalanga Village
Deborah James

8. Moralising Magic? A Brief History of Football Potions in a South African Homeland Area, 1958–2010
Isak Niehaus

9. City Slums, Rural Homesteads: Migrant Culture, Displaced Urbanism and the Citizenship of the Serviced House
Leslie Bank

10. ‘Keeping Land for Their Children’: Generation, Migration and Land in South Africa’s Transkei
Derick A. Fay

11. Epilogue
Joost Fontein

Biography

Steffen Jensen is a Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark, and a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY: The Danish Institute Against Torture. He has published on issues of gangs, policing, justice, human rights, development and victimhood in South Africa and the Philippines. He has recently published Histories of Victimhood (2014) and Human Rights and State Violence: State officials in the South (2009).

Olaf Zenker is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has published on modern statehood, rule of law, bureaucracy, justice, land reform as well as conflict and identity formations in South Africa and Northern Ireland. He recently published Transition and Justice: Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa (2015) and Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland (2013).