Pros And Cons Of Decolonization In South Africa

INTRODUCTION

According to Hargreaves (1988), decolonization referrers to a measure that was put in place to eventually get rid of formal political control over colonized countries and to replace it by some new relationships. In some studies that were focused about the role that was played by the Africans in the augmentation of colonial power, decolonization is defined as a phase of reversing the gains of colonialism and the liberation of the African countries (Cooper, 1996). However, decolonization is not just about obtaining of political independence. Rather, government systems and other institutions, economic organization of the country and also the way in which former colonial people were encouraged to think, are usually determined by the former colonial powers in post-colonial countries which must be the opposite. Understood in this context, South Africa

Decolonization a process of undoing the benefits of colonialism leads to Africanization a process through which the liberalized Africans becomes conscious to what it means to be a Black person. In South African context, these two process results in the South African society being interpreted through the lens of Marxist political economy, that is mostly concerned with the analysis of the class dynamics of homeland independence and the opportunities that this process fostered for political control and capital accumulation by new and existing elites (Letsekha,2013). The process of decolonization and Africanization also helps in the development of such theories as empowerment theory, class conflict theory and black consciousness in that these theories speaks to a common theme of the complete freedom of black people from white oppression. The different ways through which these theories contribute to decolonization and Africanization are to be further explored in detail in the essay that