ABSTRACT
This chapter interprets 'Apartheid' from an analysis of the discourse on 'the other'. The Nationalist Party viewed 'Apartheid' as representing its 'native policy', suggesting that something about the existing policy on 'the other' needed to be changed. The chapter focuses on Apartheid's strategic elements, the 'freezing' of identity within the 'texts' of the state and the re-organization of space on the principle of 'enclosure' and the forms it took in 'the compound', 'the township' and 'the bantustan'. It briefly identifies the main 'turning points' in the typically developmentalist, linear narrative explaining the 'emergence' of Apartheid. The story almost always begins with the landing of Europeans and follows important moments in 'their history', moving left to right from event to event, the colonial settlement, the moving frontier, the Afrikaner 'Great Trek', and then the discovery of precious metals.
