- Title
- Part II Zef/poor white kitsch chique
- Creator
- Krueger, Anton
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225745
- Identifier
- vital:49255
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2012.715484"
- Description
- Ninja, who fronts the freak hip-hop band Die Antwoord, might not be quite what Desmond Tutu had in mind when he described South Africans as the “Rainbow People of God,”24 a happy harmonious amalgamation of different races. In his introduction to their seminal comic track “Enter the Ninja,” Ninja presents himself, rather, as a mongrel gutter dog, both embracing and parodying a syncretic fusion of the many different cultures and races of South Africa, celebrating as well as subverting the rainbow nation discourse. As he said in an interview with News24: “South African culture is quite a fucking fruit salad … a fucking fucked rainbow nation. South Africa's totally fucked … but in a cool way.”25 The cool side of being “fucked” in this way is “Zef.” Zef denotes a particular style of vulgar humor (in the usual sense of the word “vulgar,” but also with a nod to its origin in the Latin vulgaris for “mob” or “commoners”), which has been emerging more and more in South Africa during the past decade. It involves a way of presenting a persona in a purposefully degrading way, exaggerating one's appearance and mannerisms as low class, ill bred, and boorish. I would like to consider the recent popularity of “Zef” and examine its connection specifically to popular Afrikaans folk rock culture, a lineage of white poverty, and the feeling of disgrace experienced by many white Afrikaners after the end of apartheid.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (11 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Safundi, Krueger, A., 2012. Part II: Zef/poor white kitsch chique: Die Antwoord's comedy of degradation. Safundi, 13(3-4), pp.399-408, Safundi volume 13 number 3 - 4 p. 399 2012 1543-1304
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- Rights
- Open Access
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