Abstract
As discussed in Chapter 4, the Satanism scare was both a mask and a marker for a range of threats that fed into white South African fear. The discourses attached to communists, rebellious youth and demonic foreigners all bolstered the narrative of Satanism. The apparent epidemic of family murder operated in a similar manner, pulling a whole plethora of issues into its axis. Family murder became a space of contested meanings where white South Africans from all sides of the political spectrum argued over aspects of their society.
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