This dissertation seeks to offer a potential theoretical framework within the discipline of
African theology for engaging, subverting and transforming the phenomenon of Whiteness in
the post-colonial, post-Apartheid South African context. This framework is developed through
bringing three theoretical frameworks into dialogue with one another. These theoretical
frameworks are South African Black Theology, Decolonial theory, and South African
Whiteness Studies. Through the use of dialectical analysis I produce a South African
Decolonial frame for theological reflection on Whiteness. Throughout this dissertation a selfreflexive
method of study is also used. As a white scholar I regularly situate myself and my
own Whiteness in the context of the discourse, allowing myself both as a scholar and as a
person to be informed by black-led theory and black scholarship.
