WHITE PRIVILEGE, BLACK PAIN, the power of race in democratic South Africa

205pp., paperback, Xarra Books, Midrand, 2026

ISBN: 9780639866666

Kim Heller offers a radical critique of the 1994 democratic transition, which she argues dismantled apartheid's legal facade while safeguarding White economic dominance and ideological control, forging an alliance between a complicit Black elite and White capital while sacrificing land restitution and justice.

Includes contributions from Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, Melusi Ncala, Ali Naka, Sipho Seepe, Teresa Oakley-Smith, Carl Niehaus, Daniel Mekgwe, Vusi Mahlangu and Andile Mngxitama.

Kim Heller is the author of No White Lies: Black politics and White power in South Africa (2020). She lives in Johannesburg.