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Jacob Dlamini has made a name for himself as a writer by challenging the comforting fictions that South Africans often tell themselves about their history. In Native Nostalgia he examines what it means for black South Africans to remember their lives under apartheid with fondness. What does it mean for a young black South African to say: "I had a happy childhood" or for an old black woman to say today: "Live was better under apartheid"?
Dlamini suggests that we should not dismiss such sentiments as reactionary or shy away from them simply because they make us uncomfortable for to do so would be to blind ourselves to the complexity of black life under apartheid, where the line between resistance and collaboration was always a fine one.
Dlamini is a 2009 Ruth First Fellow. A PhD student in History at Yale, he has written for the Sunday Times, among others, and is a former political editor of Business Day. Native Nostalgia is his first book and is part history, memoir, meditation and ethnography about growing up in Kathlehong.
| Date | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| Time | 12:30 for 13:00 |
| Venue | Camil's, Cape Royale Hotel, 47 Main Rd, Green Point |
| Parking | In road outside or at 2 parking garages in Upper Portswood Rd |
| Cost | R120 Members R160 Guests |
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