Sobering analysis of a democratic SA
IN NO White Lies: Black Politics and White Power, Kim Heller provides a razor-sharp critique of South African politics. In doing so, she takes no prisoners.
The hypocrisy and privilege of white society screams out of every column. She knows this well as she is a white South African. She is not unconscious of the fact that her privilege is linked to her skin colour.
While many of her white compatriots are keen to rewrite history, Heller is bold to state that she is a “foreigner” in South Africa.
A “settler on stolen land”. She writes “like every white South African, past, present, or future, I am a child of privilege.
The phenomenon of ill-gotten white
