The Burden of Race: 'Whiteness' and 'Blackness' in Modern South Africa

Abstract

Given the history of the Boers, the Broederbond, and the Nationalist Party’s institution of an apartheid structure of governance, the conference call on the Burden of Race by the University of Witwatersrand’s Wits History Workshop and the newly created Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) prompts the following questions: Are these people for real? What planet have they been living on for the past thirty years? More pertinently, what is the object and goal of this myth-making?