ABSTRACT
The colonial, historical and apartheid relations of repression, exploitation and discrimination resulted in social, cultural and economic dislocation. The coloniser found, conquered and renamed and reorganised, marginalised and—not to an insignificant extent—abolished memory. Memorialisation, which involves the means and ways of keeping the memory of matters and things of significance alive, is established in South Africa. The 1993 interim constitution asserts that “this constitution provides a historic bridge between the past of a deeply divided society characterised by strife, conflict, untold suffering and injustice, and a future founded on the recognition of human rights”. The macroeconomic strategies that have been adopted since the dawn of democracy attest to the dominance of economic considerations and the marginalisation of other knowledge systems. In free-market capitalism, "economic man" is standard, uniform and harmonised. The global economic system demands certain postures, in order to survive and thrive.
