ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an analysis of how colonialism forcibly and violently submitted the colonised part of the world to European memory and knowledge. It proceeds to deploy the concepts of "dismemberment" and "re-membering" to explicate how colonised people were pushed out of the human family as they were denied history and memory on the one hand. The chapter unpacks the complex technologies of dismemberment/dehumanisation which were meant to erase colonised people's history, memory and knowledge, while at same time providing re-membering initiatives with their visions of new societies and a new world. The possibilities of any successful humaning are dependent on perpetrators and victims of dehumanisation changing their perceptions of each other, and genuinely coming together in new spirit of constructing a new political society. Recognition of sacrifices made by numerous South Africans and non-South Africans to the antiapartheid liberation struggle, and the memorialisation of their lives of struggle and sacrifice, are part of building a new political society.
