The article discusses the impact of post-liberation political thought on the generation born in the 2000s, who have no experiential reference to the political events before and after 1990. It highlights the disfigured image of political liberation figures, particularly Nelson Mandela, presented to this generation through forensic rhetoric.
My eldest child Lukhangela was born in 2003, which makes him a bona fide member of the age group colloquially known as the 2000s. Far removed by time from the political events that took place before and immediately after 1990, their epistemic point of reference is not experiential.
Unless they are keen to find out the truth about the past on their own, it may be said that they are “virgin territory” for post-liberation political thought, some of which has taken a grotesquely forensic form since the late 2000s. And no political liberation figure has been so dissected to the point of posthumous mutilation as Madiba has — a merciless forensic rhetoric that has presented my son and his peers with a disfigured image of the man, not a true reflectio
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