The presumed secularity of South African governance was saturated with religious legacy

Evidence

The appeal to authoritative reason, the god of race, was to be replaced by the appeal to secular reason, to the racial equivalent of laicization. The arbitrariness of racial appeal was supposed to give way to the refusal to judge or assess people and their worth on the basis of morally inappropriate or irrelevant categories like race. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1587 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: South African resistance movements secularized their governing vision while the dominant order stayed theological — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1539; Apartheid functioned as a religious conviction demanding sacrifice and communal devotion; South Africa’s post-apartheid transition aimed to secularize race outright — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1587 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• South Africa’s post-apartheid transition aimed to secularize race outright #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1587