- Title
- The auto/biography of the liberation struggle and public representation of its memory and heritage :1994 to 2008
- Creator
- Solani, Noel Lungile Zwelidumile
- Subject
- Monuments
- Subject
- Reconciliation - - Political aspects -- South Africa
- Subject
- Museums
- Date Issued
- 2013-03
- Date
- 2013-03
- Type
- Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/23067
- Identifier
- vital:55380
- Description
- This thesis is an analysis ofthe constructions and productions of new post apartheid identities and heritages of the liberation struggle with a specific reference on the Eastern Cape. It does this by examining the first 15 years ofdemocratic rule in South Africa. While there were many organisations that participated in the liberation struggle such as the African Peoples Organisation (APO). the lndian Congresses. the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Unity Movement as well as the African National Congress (ANC). the focus ofthis thesis is restricted to the ANC. In this case it examines what were the objectives and subjective reasons for the participation ofthe ANC in the liberation struggle. These questions are examined from the perspective ofthe ANC as one of the liberation movements that ultimately assumed power and had an opportunity to implement its vision and programmes in a new state. ln this way. this work shows that the objectives ofthe liberation struggle were aimed at replacing the apartheid racial order with a non-racial and non—sexist society where all its members are equal citizens. The thesis seeks to examine the feelings ofthe liberation struggle by looking at songs, poetry. photographs. documentary films. museums and monuments. I argue that, cultural practices and memory institutions such as museums. offers us useful complex methodologies in the narration ofthe auto/biography ofthe liberation struggle. I also argue that each of these does not only tell the narrative of the liberation struggle, trigger and promote the memory ofthat struggle and individuals within that struggle. but they also communicate the feelings ofthis struggle. its growth and maturity in ways that history as understood in the academy cannot The main question that is asked in this study is: what were the self—determined objectives ofthe National Democratic Struggle (NDS)? In this regard, I therefore examine two issues: first I look at the evolution ofthe national or native question in South Africa and the reaction or understanding ofthe liberation movements. especially the ANC. towards the national question. The thesis also examines the AN(“s attitude on this matter. Secondl). I attempt to analyse the “national question“ in a changed environment and the ways in which it is constructed through public memory and the means used for the "nation“ to where While not engaging on the merits or demerits of the national question.
- Description
- Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, 2013
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (291 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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