This article examines the recurrence of xenophobic attacks in 2011 in the light of the events of May 2008. Using archives and secondary data, examining slogans and discourses heard at the time and reflecting on the author's own involvement as an activist alongside foreign residents displaced by the 2008 attacks, it is argued that the xenophobic attacks demonstrated...

Comment les Sud-Africains se représentent-ils le passage de l'apartheid au post-apartheid ? Ce livre aborde ces questions par le prisme des usines qui furent l'un des lieux où régnèrent, avec violence, la discrimination et la ségrégation raciales et où s'applique, aujourd'hui, une nouvelle législation du travail promouvant, notamment, la discrimination positive.

In this paper, the author examines the different uses and meanings of the usual expression "post-apartheid." It has been used extensively in the social sciences, political discourse and the media since the mid-1980s. But what does it refer to, and has it always meant the same thing over the last 20 years? To answer that question, the author reviews the different wa...