Open AccessI AM AN AFRIKANER WOMAN
Author(s) -
Sindiwe Magona
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
multilingual margins
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-4848
pISSN - 2221-4216
DOI - 10.14426/mm.v2i2.79
Subject(s) - anguish , bantu languages , power (physics) , democracy , history , gender studies , black power , black women , sociology , political science , law , politics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
DISLOCATING WOMENIn the run up to the first truly democratic elections in South Africa, the Afrikaner women issued a heartfelt cry: What have you done in our name? Did Black women understand the question? Twenty years later, many a black-black woman, “Bantu” in the terminology of yesteryear, have begun to feel the anguish of their Afrikaner Sisters. Indeed, I am become the Afrikaner woman of yesteryear - Guilty by Association.The lesson? Power disempowers women and yet, in the final analysis, we are all held accountable for the ills of society. In essence, there is no ‘other’September 7, 2015