Intercultural Conflict and Conflict Management in South Africa as Depicted in Indigenous African Literary Texts

This chapter aims to reflect on how racial and generational groups in South Africa manage conflict in an intercultural environment to bring about intercultural harmony. It discusses the depiction of conflict and conflict management in some of the literary texts in the indigenous African languages of South Africa. A lot has been written in these languages about conflict between white and black communities and between indigenous ethnic groups in all spheres of life. The analysis of the two texts confirms that South Africa is characterized by intercultural conflict brought about by the coexistence of different racial, ethnic and generational groups. The chapter focuses the socioeconomic and sociopolitical aspects of the intercultural interaction. It also discusses the intercultural conflict management between racial groups and generational groups, that is, between Africans and whites and between the old and young generations, respectively. High-profile intercultural conflict is caused by racial division because there are people who still resist change.