By legacy RSA we mean the apartheid fascist government. In this essay we will draw conclusions about the cultural effects of this former government had on women living in RSA, and those living today even today. In particular, the social institutions developed a persona that reflected the fascist government and this persona in turn shaped the mind of many women growing up in the RSA.

As a little background, we make the following observations:

• Teachers and other officials who served in the army of a fascist and repressive government that used its power, courts,  legislator, police and death squads (Vlakplaas) to deny basic human rights to 90% of its citizens and denied such rights to those who politically opposed the government and its repressive policies endorsed the government by their silence and their participation.
• Teachers and other officials who accepted the benefits of education that accrued from these repressive policies while those who opposed the government and its policies were denied any opportunities of education endorsed the government by their silence and participation.
• Teachers and other officials who accepted employment for years from this government and reaped the benefits of this employment while millions of those who opposed the government suffered in poverty, were imprisoned for their beliefs and even tortured and murdered for their opposition, endorsed the government by their silence.
• Teachers and other officials who accepted and embraced the religion of the state that used its fundamental tenant, predestination, to justify its brutal policies endorsed the government by their silence.
• Teachers and other officials who did nothing to protest the policies of the government or to speak out on behalf of those who were being suppressed, tortured, imprisoned, and murdered when they clearly could have done so by seeking political asylum as a political opponent of the fascist government endorsed the government by their silence.
• Teachers and other officials who accepted the social culture that grew out of fascism as their own beliefs and lived and still lives by this culture is a product of this government.
• This legacy culture has shaped the thinking of men who were products of this culture, and even though the government has changed, the effect of this culture still linger in the minds of women today.

In summary, those who came to run the institutions of legacy RSA, especially the schools, who were part of the fascist regime, took on the persona of the legacy government and functioned in many respects exactly as did the government. Of particular importance was their approach to the education of females.

To better understand the consequences of this culture, we need to know how legacy RSA viewed women. Women were second class citizens who had little say in the home or the raising of children, in politics, or in industry. All areas of the RSA culture that had authority were denied to women. All decision making and authority was left to men. Repression of females was institutionalized by this culture and this repression was reflected in women's lack of confidence and in their diminished self image. In short, women were made to be highly dependent on men, and were raised to have an abnormal fear of institutions, officials, and authority figures of all kinds. What I have found personally is a disturbing lack of confidence and level of deference to superiors among young South African women that is confusing to American culture, a culture of rebels that champions the underdog, challenge authority, and admires those who, through hard work and determination, realize their dreams. Nothing of American culture was available to women in the RSA, and even now.

A fact that has been overlooked is that the fascist culture of subservience to, and fear of, authority, still persists long after the government has been dissolved. Under ideal circumstances, it may require fifty years and two generations before it is completely abolished and women have a chance to develop their own identity in RSA. A key point is that this culture established men as the unquestioned authority in all decisions and women were never allowed to question any decision, regardless of how wrong headed the men were. Men came to enjoy their unquestioned authority even within the home, and were fearful of relinquishing that power. As such, they saw their position in the home as position of power rather than as a position of responsibility to develop the child's assertiveness and strengths. In fact, the desire for self realization and assertive, among women in particular, was suppressed, sometimes with fierce opposition. The result was the production of many generations of women without any opportunity for self realization, lacking confidence, and lacking normal levels of maturity. In my own experience, I have witnesses this fear of authority and subservience to authority block the development of females from RSA who now reside in the US.

Unfortunately, the new government is not a remedy to this situation. Women still have little chance to develop their own identity in RSA as a result of the lack of responsible government by the new RSA leadership. While the chauvinist society was cultivated by the white government, there has been no improvement in the new government. As demonstrated by the uncontrollable crime and corruption in the new government, the New RSA is as bad or worse than the former RSA.

A death squad is an armed squad of men that kills civilians. These groups tend to commit extra-judicial assassinations / extra-judicial killings and forced disappearances of persons. These killings are often conducted in ways meant to ensure the secrecy of the killers' identities, so as to avoid accountability and ensure deniability.[1][2]
Death squads are often, but not exclusively, associated with the violent political repression of dictatorships, totalitarian states and similar regimes. They typically have the tacit or express support of the state, as a whole or in part (see state terrorism). Death squads may comprise a secret police force, paramilitary group or official government units with members drawn from the military or the police. They may also be organized as vigilante groups.
Death squads may be distinguished from terrorist groups in that their violent actions are used to maintain the power of a local or national elite, rather than intending to disrupt their existing authority per se. Foreign powers may aid states where death squads are active, usually without the international criticism that would be involved when supporting states that support terrorism. Some death squads, including those with links with corrupt elites, have been classified as terrorist organizations.
Death squads can go out on patrol willing to kill and looking for trouble or seeking to commit premeditated attacks against political opponents, alleged rebel sympathizers and any other people deemed "dangerous" or simply "undesirable" (e.g.. such as homeless and squatters) by authorities or local interest groups. They may also act to remove portions of the civilian populations whose existence is perceived as not serving the purposes of the ruling elite. Death squads have been used in contexts of politicides.
In South Africa death squads used by the preceding Apartheid governments against Black Africans. Agents of these groups were known as 'Vultures'. During the 1980s, the South African Bureau of State Security also possessed very close ties to the Loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland, supplying them with a large number of clandestine arms.
Vlakplaas is a farm that served as the headquarters of the South African Police counterinsurgency unit C10 (later called C1)[1] working for the apartheid government in South Africa. The C-designation of the counterinsurgency unit was its official name but the whole unit became known as Vlakplaas and was commanded by Eugene de Kock.
Vlakplaas functioned as a paramilitary hit squad,[2] capturing political opponents of the apartheid government and either "turning" (converting) or executing them. The Vlakplaas farm was usually the site of multiple executions of political opponents of the apartheid government.[3]
Vlakplass was similar in function to the Civil Cooperation Bureau, the main difference being that Vlakplaas was attached to the SAP, while CCB was part of the SADF.[2]
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