Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts
By Leslie Witz
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By Leslie Witz
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Apartheid's Festival highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the festival was viewed by many as an opportunity for the government to promote its nationalist, separatist agenda in grand fashion. Leslie Witz's finegrained examination of newspapers, brochures, pamphlets, and advertising materials reveals the...






















