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CONTENTS 1. Introduction Background to Poor Whites The Practices of Rehabilitation The Structure of Social Categories White Spaces, Stark Boundaries 2. The Poor White Category Whites in South Africa Poor Whiteism Eugenics Poor Whites as an Intellectual, Economic and Religious Concern A Festering Wound in the Social Body: the Organic Analogy Poor Whites in the Economic Nation-building Process Christian-national Ideology and the Poor White Problem Citizens’ Housing League: Made to Measure How the Residents of Epping Garden Village Became Poor Whites The First Residents: 1938–1948 The Second Generation: after 1948 The Arrival of Those Who ‘Could not Lift Themselves Up’: 1960–1990 The End of Apartheid Success or Failure? The Poor White Stigma 3. Fieldwork: Facing the Issues of Trust and Betrayal Archival Material and Its Analysis Anthropological Study of Whites in South Africa 13 14 17 19 21 25 25 29 29 33 33 38 40 44 46 47 50 54 56 58 61 65 69 72 9
Page 1 and 2: Annika Björnsdotter Teppo THE MAKI
Page 3: ”Dit is dr. Anton Rupert wat ges
Page 6 and 7: Myriam Houssay-Holzscuch for her wi
Page 10 and 11: CONTENTS 4. The White Body and Its
Page 12 and 13: CONTENTS Changing Space Ruyterwacht
Page 14 and 15: BACKGROUND TO POOR WHITES In South
Page 16 and 17: whites. In this process any ethnic
Page 18 and 19: ies, as Mellor and Shilling have na
Page 20 and 21: expressive through the process of e
Page 22 and 23: would take place (Dubow 1995:171).
Page 24 and 25: Map 1: South Africa 24
Page 26 and 27: They drifted into Africa, and becam
Page 28 and 29: the backbone of the Afrikaners, and
Page 30 and 31: At that time it was believed possib
Page 32 and 33: South African society in which most
Page 34 and 35: dium of the human body. It was a us
Page 36 and 37: Being a poor white was considered a
Page 38 and 39: the white poor was regarded as poss
Page 40 and 41: orities and class character had to
Page 42 and 43: a mengelmoes 42 of whites and Other
Page 44 and 45: to feel inadequate for it was felt
Page 46 and 47: ”The trouble”, said one member
Page 48 and 49: enough, and when she left, Mrs. Mul
Page 50 and 51: tenant, who behaved and managed his
Page 52 and 53: Mrs. Mulder’s offspring were not
Page 54 and 55: Consequently, a high degree of depe
Page 56 and 57: present home, and had already made
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with her on the garden gate where P
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United States shows (Killian 1985:
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It is difficult to estimate how muc
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Map 2: Cape Town area 64
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ing from one to five hours) intervi
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My first challenge was to find the
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very familiar with the subject, and
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ole’ was combined with the code
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to study them, but it also makes it
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4. THE WHITE BODY AND ITS BOUNDARIE
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ody as socially produced. An extrem
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and low morality are obvious. Durin
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In Bourdieu’s theory of practice,
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dynamics in one field, cannot expla
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(cultural) capital would make them
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Throughout colonial history the con
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ity and racial mixing to the impure
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credibility was to be maintained. V
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Passing for White Racial segregatio
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“So my grandmother wanted my moth
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5. HOUSING SCHEMES - A PERFECT SOLU
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Anne McClintock rightly points out
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was never rebuilt, leaving a huge e
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HOUSING POOR WHITES IN CAPE TOWN
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Although, in the 1930s, there were
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ment. He grew up to become a fierce
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the time Verwoerd was vastly influe
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Picture 1: The original plans of EG
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Lands, gave the first 50 morgen 102
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union between the urban areas and t
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ally, bathrooms and toilets were to
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Myth of Origin The schools are geog
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supervision of the residents was ex
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money, and the CHL was still design
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PARENTS 1942 CHILDREN 1942 PARENTS
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In Cape Town the nomination of a Br
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formative leisure activities such a
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the Afrikaners, began to rise durin
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fectively; in 1941 for instance, a
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not find any other job, the Railway
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The archival findings show that dur
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In 1942 the residents were allowed
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“The psychiatrist’s opinion is
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The Correct Ways of Presenting Self
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Domestic space was seen as a part o
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social competition. The other side
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“ Mrs. V. has deserted her husban
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the whole family was easily labelle
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no space for the anomalies in a sub
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only one of these families had to l
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“In reply to a question the Commi
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who lived near enough to be able to
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passive and institutionalised inste
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sionals’ eyes a lot. Once again,
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compulsory. There were a multitude
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further fuelled by the fact that th
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pendent residents. 146 The CHL fear
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In 1978, the area received 735 pens
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hood had a reputation for being rac
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Work and Gender 153 During the 1960
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In these cases gender roles worked
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“I did not drink, so I would not
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Company’s European villages were
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Despite all the efforts, the suburb
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survey was no longer easy to conduc
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ally dehumanised automatons the tex
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oomed dwelling in another part of t
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control. Sport was seen as a good o
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the one haven where the men could c
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up in Epping Garden Village, they w
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also give up their claim to whitene
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manifested itself in Epping Garden
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8. THE ERA OF RENEGOTIATION: RUYTER
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dents, a rapid process of gentrific
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The Era of Desegregation The first
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The coloured people in Ruyterwacht
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“We had to fi nd out for the stat
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assing and common, thus sharing the
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have jobs in the suburb as maids or
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accepting this role and understandi
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B: ISOLATED High grid (Traditional)
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these houses are also impeccable. T
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they do not see technology as evil.
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ined with inherited vintage furnitu
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more to it. The protest also contai
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ival of the African children, or th
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views, a more distressing aspect of
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CONTESTED IDENTITIES AND POWER In t
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shops that they suspected of such e
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of South African society is still w
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On the other hand, since nobody con
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the welfare cheeses in that, and pu
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themselves in the stories told and
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9. CONCLUSION: A CATEGORY AND ITS B
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class South Africans are still emba
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APPENDIX 1: TERMINOLOGY Afrikanerdo
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PROVERBS AND SAYINGS Arm is niks, m
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RUYTERWACHT IN 1997-2001 Picture 6:
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CODES/PRIMARY DOCUMENTS* 1 2 3 4 5
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APPENDIX 4: REFERENCES Adam, Heribe
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Bruner, Edward M. 1986. Experience
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Elias, Norbert 1978. The Civilising
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Grobbelaar, J., Bekker, S. and Evan
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Kinghorn, J. 1997. Modernization an
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Parnell, Susan 1988a. Public housin
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Teppo, Annika 1996. Kuin kärpäset
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Zerilda Steyn Cape Times 14.3.1930
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Coloured people, brown Afrikaners 1
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South Africa, map of 24 South Afric
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