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The Roodepoort Primary School Mediation Committee Preliminary Report.

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In person Interview with a member of the Roodepoort Primary School Mediation Committee.

I argue further that analysis of the local-scale narrative formation can help us to explain why and how local groups mobilise and demobilise racial identities to fight internal and external battles over ideas of the local and the resources associated with them. I argue that the central disjuncture between these narratives is the scale at which the analysis of the situation has to take place for each actor - a hyper-local scale of analysis amongst residents and a national scale amongst the broader public and administrative scales amongst government officials. Closer contextualised analysis of the crisis revealed competing narratives about its nature and origins and the reasons for the mobilisation of race to aid the protest action. Members of the community had forcibly shut the local primary school, demanding the removal Black African principal and deputy. In 2015, Davidsonville, a small “coloured” township on the West Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa, drew a great deal of national media attention to the area for the first time in many years amid accusations of racism.

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