Solethu Ncapayi

Honours Fellow, UK-RSA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in culture and technics

Solethu Ncapayi is an Honours student in the department of Historiography at the University of the Western Cape and a UK-RSA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in culture and technics fellow. His historical inquiries currently center around questions of racial engineering and the violence it births at its full manifestation. Solethus looks at the effects of the colonial administration and the apartheid regime’s tools of engineering racial difference and the legacies of these tools in the everyday post-apartheid South Africa. Thus, critiquing the democratic governments nationalist approach towards reconciliation which does not account for a meaningful deracialization of the sensors amongst the people. Instead, it allows the notions of difference embedded, by colonialism and apartheid, into each race to drive us further apart and away from the government’s romanticized ‘rainbow nation’.