Canto ergo sum: I sing, therefore I am

Abstract

Post-apartheid, multicultural and multiracial South Africa sees many South African citizens repositioning and redefining themselves. Essentially, (new) South Africans are engaged in a process of identity revision and reconstruction. Badsha (2003: 132) argues that these renegotiation processes are still informed by old configurations and conditions. This article argues that for a period of almost 50 years, from about 1937 until the early 1980s, the collective Afrikaner identity had been strongly shaped by a particularly influential comprehensive anthology of Afrikaans songs, known as Die FAK Volkssangbundel. Being a female, white Afrikaner who grew up in the heyday of apartheid, I will use my own narrative to interrogate the seminal role of these FAK liedjies (songs) on the formation of my pre-1994 Afrikaner identity.

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