- Title
- Re-thinking freedom: selected Life-Writings of South African Born-frees
- Creator
- Mpendulo, Mashumi
- Description
- Ideas of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa cannot be understood in isolation from the lived experiences of the people we often consider as the future of South Africa. Freedom is a time-bound value whose meaning keeps changing as time goes by, and our understanding of freedom before 1994 cannot be the same as today. With close reference to the selected life writings of South African born-frees, this study examines ideas of freedom as expressed in these texts written from the perspectives of ordinary young black people in post-apartheid South Africa. It unpacks the youth’s rejection of the tag ‘born-free’ by bringing out the difficulties of their upbringing in poverty and inequality. This work argues that poverty, inequality, unemployment, and dilapidated infrastructure in public schools are still very much a feature of post-apartheid South Africa, and that the government is yet to fully transform the lives of ordinary black people who much as they try to do so themselves, are still faced with structural inequalities, physical and symbolic violence. Through decolonial theory, the selected texts are analysed to trace the legacies of colonialism and apartheid and how notions of freedom have changed over time.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, 2021
- Date
- 2021
- Subject
- Born-Frees
- Subject
- Freedom of expression
- Subject
- Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
- Type
- Masters theses, text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3400
- Identifier
- vital:43339
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (142 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University, All Rights Reserved, Open Access
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