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    Youth cultures and identities in post - apartheid South Africa : a study of white youth in East london
    (University of Fort Hare, 2015) Bubulu, Thandiwe
    This study sought to examine identities of young white people residing in East London in post-apartheid South Africa. Most of these young people were born post 1994, after the democratically elected government; therefore they have no direct experience of apartheid. Considering that it is now two decades since South Africa has been emancipated from apartheid which was not only a system but also an ideology that separated cultures and races, and promoted white people as superior over other races (Jansen 2009:57). As I will show in literature, the identities of young people during apartheid were obviously embedded in the political context of the time and they were influenced to view themselves as a superior race.