ABSTRACT

In South Africa, ‘decolonisation’ has re-emerged as a theme for identity, economic and cultural contestations among the youth. In this, the celebratory rhetoric of rainbow nationalism of post-apartheid utopia is confronted head-on. From a theoretical discourse of the problematics of ‘the postcolonial’ this inquiry engages a critical question: if decolonisation is to undo colonial (and apartheid) economic, political and cultural legacies, to what extent has this been achieved for the South African youth? The struggle for political decolonisation (freedom) was such a long and painful journey that the wounded still bear the scars. But political freedom is an imagined trophy that newly independent states parade as decolonisation; cultural and economic colonisations are more indelible to unsettle. Drawing from public data, social statistical information, media narratives and academic literature, I argue that the post-apartheid youth, although ‘born-free’, remain victims of coloniality and the difficult process of decolonisation.

摘要

在南非，“非殖民化”重新出现，成为年轻人中身份，经济和文化竞争的主题。在这种情况下，种族隔离后的乌托邦的彩虹民族主义的庆祝言论正好面对。从关于“后殖民主义”问题的理论论述中，该询问涉及一个关键问题：非殖民化是否要消除殖民（和种族隔离）的经济，政治和文化遗产，这对南非青年实现了何种程度？为政治非殖民化（自由）而进行的斗争是漫长而痛苦的旅程，伤者仍然伤痕累累。但是，政治自由是人们想象中的奖杯，新独立的国家将其称为非殖民化游行。文化和经济殖民化更难以消除。从公共数据中