2014
DOI: 10.18820/9781920689537
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Brothers in Armchairs: Post-apartheid cultural struggles at Die Burger

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“…As Botma indicates, a theme of crisis regarding the "Africanisation" of society frequently circulated in Die Burger during the first post-apartheid decade. 579 Most noticeably, the huge controversy of the 1980s, the "mixed" heritage of many Afrikaners, is stated here as a matter of fact by the reporter, Jacob Rooi -who interestingly enough self-identifies as a "brown South African". 580 Thus, these turn of events also show that the self-appointed apartheid-gatekeepers of the "purity" of Afrikaners and Afrikaans-language journalism have indeed been overcome, but new themes have also emerged, such as transformation and decolonisation.…”
Section: Slavery and Heese 568mentioning
confidence: 86%
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“…As Botma indicates, a theme of crisis regarding the "Africanisation" of society frequently circulated in Die Burger during the first post-apartheid decade. 579 Most noticeably, the huge controversy of the 1980s, the "mixed" heritage of many Afrikaners, is stated here as a matter of fact by the reporter, Jacob Rooi -who interestingly enough self-identifies as a "brown South African". 580 Thus, these turn of events also show that the self-appointed apartheid-gatekeepers of the "purity" of Afrikaners and Afrikaans-language journalism have indeed been overcome, but new themes have also emerged, such as transformation and decolonisation.…”
Section: Slavery and Heese 568mentioning
confidence: 86%
“…It is significant that social media and students were in some way the catalysts for these prominent calls for "decolonisation". In the first postapartheid decade similar sentiments and ideas were part of the rhetoric of "Africanisation", 565 but they in the main originated as part of official restructuring processes of the apartheid state and society by the newly elected ANC-led government coalition. How most members of the media shifted their editorial positions in relation to that theme is also an interesting phenomenon; for example in the 1990s the Afrikaans press was especially critical of what they perceived as the indiscriminate targeting of "Eurocentric" institutions, values and traditions.…”
Section: #Colonialismmustfallmentioning
confidence: 99%