ABSTRACT
I was once an anti-apartheid activist on a state hit squad list and under constant surveillance. Now, I am told by some young academics who occupy the liberated (Marxian) ‘new class’ that ‘white’ scholarship and activism has no legitimacy, even if it was anti-apartheid, and I am sometimes accused of ‘speaking for the (racial) other’. My response: My activism did not speak ‘for’ anyone but rather ‘with’ those constituencies that associated themselves with general democratic principles.
