Battling over Borders: Narratives of Resistance to the South African Border War Voiced through Popular Music

Drewett, Michael

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“…297 Additionally, by the mid-1980s, South Africans were increasingly becoming aware that 'The Border' was as much an ideological construct as it was a reference to the boundary dividing Angola and Namibia. 298 In popular Afrikaans discourse, the ideological 'Border' had expanded to encompass the perceived greater communist threat, both in Southern and South Africa. The recollections of an English-speaking national serviceman, called up in 1982, are indicative of the dichotomy between Afrikaans-and English-speaking South Africans and might reflect why the NP government felt that it had become necessary to formalise their approach to protect South Africa: I didn't really believe in this whole Communistic [sic] onslaught and all of that.…”

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Examining support of South African Defence Force conscription by the mainstream Afrikaans sister churches (1968–1991)

Gordon

2022

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From the 1950s to the 1990s, white men were conscripted to serve in the South African Defence Force (SADF). Although it varied in its application and duration, conscription was an undeniable, and often unavoidable, part of life for white South Africa. While it was not universally accepted, and certainly not universally popular, resistance was largely confined to English-speaking citizens. Objection was often seen as cowardly or treacherous. Conscription had an influence on the psyche of white South Africa and was viewed in a serious light by various religious denominations. Ecclesiastical positions varied and often changed over the course of time. In the main, Afrikaans churches were sympathetic towards conscription, while English churches were likely to oppose it. The latter position has been extensively documented, but the former remains neglected. This article analyses the role that mainstream Afrikaans sister churches played in supporting the National Party policies of conscription and ensuring their congregants’ compliance. It also presents a discussion on the relationship between those churches and the SADF, inter alia by referring to changes in conscription legislation and the reaction of the churches to those changes.

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Examining support of South African Defence Force conscription by the mainstream Afrikaans sister churches (1968–1991)

Gordon

2022

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“…Drewett (2003) argues that the state had clear views of males as ‘protectors’ and women as the ‘protected’ (p. 95). The delineation of gender roles also pressured females to acquiesce into stereotypical roles on the home front.…”

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‘Casting Shadows’: Militarised boyhoods in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s

Symons

2020

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This article provides a series of insights into the structures and scaffolding of militarising White South African adolescents during the 1980s, including the processes of militarisation from childhood up until induction into the former South African Defence Force. Although this article traces the process and presents personal accounts of militarised childhoods, it ultimately questions how these indeterminate memories attempt to navigate a contested present, namely, a post-apartheid space.

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Theorizing Media as/and Civil Society in Africa

Willems

2013

The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa

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Battling over Borders: Narratives of Resistance to the South African Border War Voiced through Popular Music

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Examining support of South African Defence Force conscription by the mainstream Afrikaans sister churches (1968–1991)

Examining support of South African Defence Force conscription by the mainstream Afrikaans sister churches (1968–1991)

‘Casting Shadows’: Militarised boyhoods in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s

Theorizing Media as/and Civil Society in Africa

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