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      Racial Undertones on Violence and Human Bodies: White Migrants' Online Epistemologies of Insecurity and Discomfort in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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            Violence and insecurity in post-apartheid South Africa are recurrent themes in online messages by white South Africans who have either migrated or wish to leave the country. These online authors position white people as victims or potential victims of crime committed by black people. It is a narrative which references apartheid as a period of safety and security, presupposing life is no longer what it used to be for white people. Through comparing the pre-1994 with the post-apartheid period and particularly emphasising that the black leadership is failing the country, the white migrants construct an epistemology – with racist undertones – of an unliveable South Africa. Narratives of black violence enacted upon white people, as well as white innocence and benevolence, are central features of the migrants' online complaints of an unliveable South Africa which I take up as a point of focus in this article.

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            Primus Tazanu
            Journal
            Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50020082
            Journal ID (jcode): intecritdivestud
            Title: International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN: 2516-550X
            ISSN: 2516-5518
            Publication date (Print): 1 December 2019
            Volume: 2
            Issue: 2 ( doiID: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.issue-2 )
            Pages: 6-21
            Affiliations
            Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
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            Publisher ID: intecritdivestud.2.2.0006
            DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0006
            SO-VID: 8453e9db-c6c8-4cc1-891b-c0bac9e53a13
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            ScienceOpen disciplines: Social & Behavioral Sciences
            Keywords: post-apartheid South Africa,white South African migrants,whiteness,racism online,violence and insecurity

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            1. https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/343572/imstaying-is-spreading-here-are-some-of-the-reasons-why-people-say-they-want-to-stay-in-south-africa/

            2. These are: The Other Side: A Christian Source with Politically Incorrect News (http://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem8.htm), New American: that Freedom Shall Not Perish (http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/12326-south-africa-facing-white-genocide-total-communist-takeover),SAbona (http://www.sabona.com.au/articles_detail.ews?articles_comments.ewdfr=50&&articles_detail.ewdid=662), NBR (http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/south-africa-nz-you-dont-know-how-lucky-you-are-114030), Hub Pages (http://hubpages.com/travel/South-Africa-grass-greener).The websites were originally accessed between 20 and 24 August 2015.

            3. Unlike postcolonial studies that look at the material, economic and the cultural relationships between the former colonies and their colonizers, taking the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as its starting point, decoloniality takes as its starting point the colonisation of the Americas, paying attention on the simultaneous development of modernity and coloniality (Bhambra, 2014).

            4. http://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem8.htm

            5. https://www.afriforum.co.za/afriforum-voice-aboard/ (last accessed 17 July 2019).

            6. http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/12326-south-africa-facing-white-genocide-total-communist-takeover (last accessed 29 August 2019).

            7. http://hubpages.com/travel/South-Africa-grass-greener

            8. http://www.sabona.com.au/articles_detail.ews?articles_comments.ewdfr=50&&articles_detail.ewdid=662

            9. http://www.sabona.com.au/articles_detail.ews?articles_comments.ewdfr=50&&articles_detail.ewdid=662

            10. http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/south-africa-nz-you-dont-know-how-lucky-you-are-114030 (last accessed 7 April 2016).

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