Post-colonial archetypes in the collective unconscious of South
African society have actualised themselves powerfully in the
discourses that have usurped the framing of what has come to
be called “farm attacks” in South Africa. These attacks are often a
grotesque enactment of a violent script that blurs crime and postapartheid comeuppance on the farm as mythical representation
of the post-apartheid state. Framing these attacks as a Boer
Genocide or justifying them as a form of colonial struggle /
restitution remains rooted in totalising Afrikaner and black
nationalisms respectively that not only renders the potential for
addressing / redressing this violence barren, but actually inform
it. Post-colonial psychology offers a lens to analyse the psychopolitical underpinnings of this violence and its framing
