JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Where is home for black South Africans?
An interesting study would be one on black professionals with one foot in the city and the other in a rural area
08 January 2025 - 05:00
During the December holidays hundreds of thousands of black South Africans would have moved out of Gauteng, for example, and gone “home” — a broad concept that captures the place where one was born, one’s parents live (or lived) or where one’s grandparents grew up, died and are buried.
This concept of home, which creates an identity rooted in both urban and rural settings, dates back to before colonisation, when people would leave home (where they grew up) to start their own homesteads, and continues for a variety of reasons, including cultural...
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