Double Death and Double Violence Reading Vutha in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying as a Symbol of South Africa at Apartheid and Post–Apartheid Periods.pdf

South Africa was under apartheid regime from 1948 up until 1990, when apartheid was ousted by the release of Nelson Mandela. At this, power was granted to majority Black and Nelson Mandela became the leader in 1994. South Africa was thus declared a free nation devoid of apartheid and any kind of discrimination. But this was just a political emancipation without economic authority. This paper thus depicts South Africa as suffering double violence both at the apartheid regime and the post-apartheid period as she wobbles among apartheid structures in this post-apartheid era. Vutha, Noria’s son, a child of ‘Immaculate Conception’, who suffers double death and violence, represents South Africa during apartheid hegemony and the post-apartheid South Africa in the hands of majority rule, where the apartheid strictures transform into the post-apartheid era. This develops into a dichotomy of binaries metamorphosed into a continuity of the past in the present.