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This paper will explore two examples of African contemporary dance, including the 2014 Uhambo 1 production in Athlone Cape Town and Four Seasons, choreographed by Gregory Maqoma and performed by the Vuyani Dance Theatre at Artscape Theatre Cape Town in 2014. Hence, it also argues that one critical way of supporting audiences to resist past and present forms of oppression is for the creation of meaning (value) through interdisciplinary choreography and post-performance discussions with audience members which will allow Black South Africans to begin to reclaim their ability to reflect on the meaning of contemporary African dance forms, and in turn, to reflect and act upon confidently, through their own identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers an overview of the changing social formation of South Africa from the institutionalisation of apartheid in the late 1940s to the present, and its representation in the literature of the country, reflecting the translational literary history of the "New" South Africa as a nation undergoing transformations, particularly in the labour situation, land struggles and the politics of the Rainbow nation. Thus, the article envisions literature as providing incisive historical analysis of the South African life "from the inside" the social and economic processes as lived by the diverse cultures in South Africa. Drawing on the racial structure of the economy, the paper lays the historical basis to South Africa's economic challenges such as poverty, joblessness and deprivation, and argues how these inflections have been mapped in the literature of the "New" South Africa. The paper also shows that the analysis of socio-cultural, economic and political transformation must begin with the disclosure of the genesis of the human exploitation of labour that generated the disparities prevalent in the "New" South Africa. Hence, because of the shifting socio-cultural, economic and political boundaries, post-apartheid South Africa can be represented as a "national imaginary", a future after apartheid, representing new narratives of a socially, culturally, economically and politically transforming nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to reaffirm the enduring contributions of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, one of the most ignored iconic figures in the history of the South African struggle against colonial-apartheid. Thus, it argues that he was the most feared crusader against colonial-apartheid but through tendentious historiography his legacy is being wished away from the history of the country, although only now is he being acknowledged by students desperate for answers in the context of decolonial 'new South Africa'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper opines that apartheid, though abolished, was not peculiar to South Africa, but prevalent in many post-independence African states in form of social injustice wherein the politics of allocation of amenities has entrenched the system of segregation, discrimination exploitation and oppression against a majority group of people by a minority group as captured by Ifeoma Okoye in The Fourth World and Festus Iyayi in Violence. The conclusion is that it is not yet Uhuru (freedom) for African states, because apartheid is still very much present in form of gross social injustice, and that meaningful progress in society can only be achieved through its eradication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]