ABSTRACT
Rose’s lecture reflects the depth of her ongoing engagement with South African literature, culture, history and politics and her affiliation with the struggle for racial justice. Among the issues she raises for people to consider are the relationship of psychoanalysis to history, the persistence of trans-generational haunting in South Africa, and the relationship of the student protest movement to late capitalism and neoliberalism. Although South Africa has been after apartheid with the dissolution of that regime 27 years ago, signified by the establishment of one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, the breakdown of segregation in many domains of civil society, apartheid still lives on within the time of aftermath. Apartheid remains the name for one form of power under which people continue to live, especially young people who do not understand themselves as living in a new day.
