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| Title: | Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Uithalder's Satirical Writing, 1909-1922 |
| Author: | Adhikari, Mohamed |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
| Issue: | 47 |
| Period: | October |
| Pages: | 115-131 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | press Coloureds apartheid sociolinguistics Afrikaans language literature satire History and Exploration Literature, Mass Media and the Press Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470208671437 |
| Abstract: | 'Straatpraatjes' was a very successful satirical column that appeared in the APO newspaper, the official organ of the African Political Organization (APO), between May 1909 and February 1922, albeit with a break of five years between 1913 and 1918. Founded in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1902, APO was the first substantive Coloured political association. Notwithstanding claims that the newspaper spoke for the Coloured people as a whole, APO in reality represented the interests of the Coloured petty bourgeoisie, whose social aspirations were almost entirely assimilationist. 'Straatpraatjes' was narrated by Piet Uithalder, a fictitious character. The column represents an authentic replication of the Afrikaans vernacular spoken within the urban Coloured community of the western Cape. Although the newspaper never revealed the identities of the authors of the column, the evidence points to Abdullah Abdurahman, the President of APO, having written nearly all of the columns. The 102 surviving 'Straatpraatjes' reflect the changing social and political context in which the column operated. The column also mirrors the changing fortunes of APO. 'Straatpraatjes' came into being at a time when Coloureds were feeling threatened by the rising tide of segregationism. The assimilation overtures of the Coloured petty bourgeoisie had been rejected by white society and they had faced a hardening of racial barriers in the years following the Anglo-Boer War. The pressures of intensifying segregationism thus pervaded the column. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
