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less formally organized fashion...
the cultural dominance is
transfer of money and/or resources
dominating culture group.6
augmented by the
from dominated to
This is specifically relevant to South Africa where the import
of Anglo-American rock music was far more profitable for the
South African music industry than promoting local rock music.
South A£rican Rock and the Identity Crisis
The need to retain ties with Britain, by Natalians in particular,
has already been discussed. The residue of loyalty felt by
English-speaking Natalians towards England has been a focus of
this discussion and has been ventured as a possible reason for
the almost blind imitation of English trends by young people in
Durban. Albie Sachs put it succinctly:
It is crucial that we in South Africa now set about
disestablishing our culture and breaking away from the
conceptual and structural strangulations of the past.
Long after our country was declared a republic, we
remain mentally colonised... 7
This 'mental colonisation' is a key to understanding the problem
of local identity in English-speaking South Africans. The
Goldstuck/Kramer interview reveals another important key to
understanding the identity problem experienced by English­
speaking South Africans 8 • Kramer asserts that English-speaking
South Africans have an inferiority complex which is directly
linked to the negative connotations evoked by South Africa's
apartheid legacy. This inferiority complex may not be as strong
6 R. Wallis and K. Maim, Big Sounds from Small People: The Music
Industry in Small Countries, London: Constable, 1994. pp. 298-299.
7 A. Sachs, 'Black is Beautiful, Brown is Beautiful, White is Beautiful:
Towards a Rainbow Culture in a United South Africa', Further Thoughts on
Culture, Cape Town: SA Constitution Studies Centre, March 1992, p. 3.
8 See Chapter 1.