Afrikaner farmers and farmworkers, left destitute after the Anglo-Boer war, migrated to urban areas where they lived as unskilled labourers among black unskilled labourers – an embarrassment to international whiteness and a threat to ideas of racial purity. White women were also perceived as vulnerable to black men. Solving the poor white problem became imperative in preserving ideas of white racial superiority – and the road to apartheid began.
“Black racist bitch” is the slur hurled at Ntshinga when she shared the information on TikTok. What does this outburst say about our understanding of our history and the real work