Nostalgia for apartheid

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Nostalgia for apartheid is feelings of nostalgia for the apartheid system in South Africa, as well as more general nostalgia for life in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

Background

Such feeling is widespread in South Africa,

continued inequality
, and unfulfilled expectations of improved standards of living.

Similarities

It is similar to

Soviet nostalgia, where nostalgia also arose for a repressive regime following the fall of that regime, including by those oppressed by it.[2][4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nostalgia grows for apartheid system". The Guardian.
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  3. ^ "Why some in SA's coloured community are nostalgic for apartheid".
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