One wonders if Jacob Dlamini realised how contentious his book Native Nostalgia would turn out to be? In it, the author argues that many look back at aspects of the Apartheid era with a kind of longing. Ido Lekota defends this view in the Sowetan and joins Dlamini in a call for people to remember to keep the good:
IN HIS book, Native Nostalgia, Jacob Dlamini tackles the subject of how often we hear of black people seemingly hankering after “the good days of apartheid”.
This normally happens when people complain about how their lives have changed for the worst in
post-apartheid South Africa.This knee-jerk reaction, as Dlamini correctly points out, is (especially for those in power) to reject these comments as “reactionary”.
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