INTRODUCTION

South Africa is one of the countries in the world that are well known for its past racist government, wherein the black South Africans were oppressed by the white minority. This type of government was put to an end in the year 1994 and all the racist actions were reduced. However, after more than 20 years of “the new South Africa”, there are still some of the things that are being done, that still carry the meaning of racial divisions that were practised during that apartheid era. In this essay, two arguments that are presented by different authors that addresses these objects that carry the meaning of division will be briefly discussed; comments and how the arguments apply to Potchefstroom are also going to be provided.
BREMNER AND CZEGLEGY’S ARGUMENTS.

The first argument, which is presented by Lindsay Bremner, focuses on the ways of thinking about race, crime and the increasing privatisation and the enclosure of space in contemporary Johannesburg, through the concept of terror (Bremner, 2004:455). According to Bremner (2004:456) “terror is something inherent to the human condition. It is a nameless anxiety, a fundamental vulnerability, a basic, existential fear of imminent catastrophe.”
This argument maintains that during the apartheid era, the racist government that was ruling South Africa, made it a sure point that all that all those who were seen as evil, alien, and dangerous (the black South Africans), were kept as far away as possible from the