Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa

Index

Abrahams, Peter, 183 Act of Union (1910), 32 Adorno, Theodor: on coming to terms with the past, 241n1 African National Congress (ANC), 99, 159, 169, 177, 178, 185, 187, 193, 199; banner of, 142; leadership of, 9; Mandela and, 159, 181–82; MK and, 279n92 African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, 99, 181–82 African Renaissance, 89 Afrikaans, 33, 38, 42, 44, 94, 114, 257n174 Afrikanerdom, 36, 72, 76, 83 Afrikaner nationalism, 32, 33, 45, 64, 73, 76, 78, 83, 87, 188; metanarrative of, 61; radicalization of, 35 Afrikaner nationalists, 43, 44–45, 46, 73, 76, 78, 84, 85; foundation myth of, 60–61; myths/ beliefs and, 37 Afrikaners, 35, 47, 79, 86 Alexander, Jane, 154 Alexander, Neville, 129 Allegory, 17, 120, 193 Allen, Douglas: on memory/architectural form, 18 Amnesia, viii, ix, 70; culture of, 7, 146, 151–53, 155, 214; memory and, 87; “new South Africa” and, 214, 216; power of, 213–16; selective, 8, 217. See also Social amnesia Amy Biehl Memorial, photo of, 152 Anderson, Benedict, 16, 50 Anglo American Corporation, 161 Anti-apartheid struggle, 9, 100, 130, 134, 135, 156, 157, 168, 169 Antze, Paul, 64 Apartheid, 30, 34, 36, 38, 39, 44, 46, 54, 66, 78, 88, 89, 104, 129, 163, 165, 187, 192; architects of, 118; collective memory and, 62, 138; crimes/injustices of, 68, 134, 138, 168, 183; cultural machinery of, 52; end of, ix, x, 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 29, 30, 49, 56–57, 59, 61, 65, 87, 103, 140, 151, 166, 170–73, 178, 180, index 289 290 index 183, 204, 210, 213–14, 215, 216; human logic of, 174; “new South Africa” and, 30; official heritage culture of, 36; organized forgetting and, 125; planning under, 48; policy of, 112, 180; prison life under, 133; private rituals of, 41; realities of, 138–39; remembering, 62, 115; response to, 169–70; struggle against, 75, 99, 102, 103, 140–41, 209; violence of, 128 Apartheid Museum, 54, 136–39; photo of, 137 Appadarai, Arjun, 123–24 Arcades Project (Benjamin), 26 Architecture, x, 4, 41, 59, 142; memory and, 18 Arendt, Hannah, 125 Armed and Dangerous (Kasrils), 184 Art: commemorative, 100; monumental , 106; rapid-fire, 166 Ash, Timothy Garton, 50 Asinamali, 168 Asmall, Kader, 59 Atlas, James, 200 Auschwitz, memorialization at, 17 Authenticity, 22, 101, 106 Autobiography, viii, x, 4, 5, 163–64, 170–71, 177, 178, 179–80, 184, 186, 187, 198; appeal of, 171–72, 174; black, 180–81; as catharsis/ revelation and, 173–76; confessional, 189, 190; documentary-realist, 174, 185; fiction and, 173; life story, 183; memory and, 3, 172; narration and, 172; public discourse and, 182; recuperative, 188; reliability/ accuracy of, 165; transition and, 175; white, 202; white minority rule and, 182–83 Azaryahu, Moaz, 78 Baer, Ulrich, 69 Bam, Fikile, 129 Baraganith/Chris Hani hospital, 158 Barthes, Roland, 60, 102 Bartov, Omer: collective memory and, 12 Battle of Blood River, 76, 80–81, 83, 84 Baumgartner, Jan, 210 Behr, Mark: confession of, 280–81n118 Beinart, William, 32 Benjamin, Walter, 26, 234n112 Berger, James, 170 Bertelson, Eve, 9 Bester, Willie, 154 Bharacha, Rustom: violence and, 124–25 Biehl, Amy, 145, 270n18; death of, 150– 51; memorial for, 151, 153 Biko, Steve, 63, 106, 145, 182; death of, 154, 181 Biography, 106, 174 Bisho Massacre Memorial, 63 Black Consciousness movement, 106, 181, 182 Blade Runner (Scott), 34–35 Bloch, Marc, 174 Boehmer, Elleke, 166, 198 Boer Republics, 32, 35 Boers, 31, 32, 36, 41, 42, 45, 73, 76, 81, 142 Bonnita milk, advertisement for, 217 Born in the RSA, 168 Botha, Louis, 30 Botha, P. W., 58 Boyarin, Jonathan: on memory, 13 Boyer, Christine, 79 index 291 Boym, Svetlana, x, 123, 191–92 Boynton, Graham, 198, 199–200 Breytenbach, Breyten, 194–95, 281– 82n141 Breytenbach, Cloete, 192 Breytenbach, Yonande, 281–82n141 Brink, André, 170 British Petroleum, 115 Broederbond, 43, 75 Bulhoek Massacre Monument, 63 Bundy, Colin: on TRC, 247n92 Bunn, David, 37, 82, 86 Calata, Fort, 151 Cape Colony, 76, 79, 114 Cape Peninsula University of Technology , 115 Cape Town, 41, 46, 47, 63, 111, 116, 128, 136, 188, 208; photo of, 130; population of, 112, 114 Carrier, Peter, 93 Casey, Edward, 19 Cato Manor, forced removal at, 115 Cautionary tales, 197–202 Cenotaph, 80; photo of, 81 Chambers, Ross: aftermath cultures and, 187 Charlesworth, Andrew, 17 Cherry, Deborah: amnesia/memory and, 87 Christian National Schools, 43 Citizenship, 32, 36, 156, 183; apartheid and, 86 City...