Apartheid s Festival highlights the conflicts and debates that
surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the
landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South
Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the
festival was viewed by many as an opportunity for the government to
promote its nationalist, separatist agenda in grand fashion. Leslie
Witz s fine-grained examination of newspapers, brochures,
pamphlets, and advertising materials reveals the expectations of
the festival planners as well as how the festival was engineered,
historical figures were reconstructed, and the ANC and other
anti-apartheid organizations mounted opposition to it. While laying
open the darker motives of the apartheid regime, Witz shows that
the production of local history is part of a global process forged
by the struggle between colonialism and resistance. Readers
interested in South Africa, representations of nationalism, and the
making of public history will find Apartheid s Festival to be an
important study of a society in transition."
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