Analysis Of Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front
Added to this, while Coloured people experienced segregation throughout the colonial period, the rise of Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Front towards the end of the colonial period, saw coloured’s losing some of their privileges when authorities banned Coloureds from virtually all public spaces they once shared with Whites (Nims, 2013, p.100). This was despite the fact that the period saw most young coloured men being forcibly conscripted to fight for the Rhodesian army.
Coloured’s in post-independence Zimbabwe
Mandaza, I. (1997, p.794) states that within the legacy of race, there were continued attempts, even after independence, to sustain interests based on race and colour. On both sides of independence, space and race produced not only a symbolic …show more content…
She believes that post-independence attempts to Africanise primary institutions of cultural production, while allowing the majority black to elevate its own culture and identity, has worked to strengthen this position. Many Coloured people themselves are perpetuators of racial difference and value Coloured identity above both a Zimbabwean and a continental African one, and have done so by enforcing familiar communal boundaries via residential, social and cultural enclaves. She proposes a reason for this as being the holding on to ideological values (ideas that constitute goals, expectations & actions) of their legal and social status of the past (Ibid, p.5). Mandaza indicates that Coloured identity has represented a false consciousness in which they have lived in a deluded state about their true interests, all be it as a result of the colonial state and a Coloured elite, who he believes foisted their worldview on the community (Raftopoulos B., Mupawenda, A., Mushonga, M., Richardson-Kageler, S. & Chawatama, S., 2003, p.19). Indeed, Coloured people had long back contributed to their own alienation when in 1951, the Coloured and Eurafrican Joint Council requested the blocking of Asians married to coloured women, or anyone with Asian parents, from purchasing homes in Arcadia (a Coloured designated area) even though being relegated to this space worked to defeat any aspirations of being considered European (Seirlis, 2004, p.
Coloured’s in post-independence Zimbabwe
Mandaza, I. (1997, p.794) states that within the legacy of race, there were continued attempts, even after independence, to sustain interests based on race and colour. On both sides of independence, space and race produced not only a symbolic …show more content…
She believes that post-independence attempts to Africanise primary institutions of cultural production, while allowing the majority black to elevate its own culture and identity, has worked to strengthen this position. Many Coloured people themselves are perpetuators of racial difference and value Coloured identity above both a Zimbabwean and a continental African one, and have done so by enforcing familiar communal boundaries via residential, social and cultural enclaves. She proposes a reason for this as being the holding on to ideological values (ideas that constitute goals, expectations & actions) of their legal and social status of the past (Ibid, p.5). Mandaza indicates that Coloured identity has represented a false consciousness in which they have lived in a deluded state about their true interests, all be it as a result of the colonial state and a Coloured elite, who he believes foisted their worldview on the community (Raftopoulos B., Mupawenda, A., Mushonga, M., Richardson-Kageler, S. & Chawatama, S., 2003, p.19). Indeed, Coloured people had long back contributed to their own alienation when in 1951, the Coloured and Eurafrican Joint Council requested the blocking of Asians married to coloured women, or anyone with Asian parents, from purchasing homes in Arcadia (a Coloured designated area) even though being relegated to this space worked to defeat any aspirations of being considered European (Seirlis, 2004, p.