Lies, power and the rainbow nation
KIM Heller’s timely offering, No White Lies: Black Politics and White Power in South Africa, is a refreshingly unique book that confronts an age-old issue that is essentially the fulcrum of social injustice the world over, white supremacy.
This monstrous issue is tackled through an unflinching and incisive commentary on the political dynamics in the post-1994 South Africa which has effectively failed to usher a post-apartheid society. This failure amounts to the indictment of the notion of the so-called rainbow nation, which is a mythical and nonsensical conception that has sadly been celebrated for most of the almost-30-years of the post-1994 political dispensation in the country.
The massively sponsored narrative of the rainbow nation as utopian initially managed to paper over the obscene cracks that revealed the systemic reality of white privilege residual from the colonial and apartheid “past”. This situation persists in
