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Lost Horizons

The Humanities in South Africa (Part 1)

Rhodes University, South Africa, p.vale{at}ru.ac.za

Politics chartered the development of the Humanities in South Africa. Under the apartheid system three separate traditions — English-speaking, Afrikaner and Homeland —co-existed, albeit uneasily, in separate institutional forms. As apartheid crumbled in the 1980s, the Humanities, by drawing the three traditions together, established a growing voice in what would follow its demise. But the Humanities were blind-sided by the rise and power of neo-liberal globalization which now commands the discourse on public policy in the `New' South Africa. The `New' South Africa is different from what was once imagined, and Humanities are on the back foot.

Key Words: Afrikaner • apartheid • Black Consciousness • English-medium • globalization • homelands • metropolitan gaze • traditions • universities

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