Masculinity and the struggle for a nation in South Africa In this powerful and accessible analysis, Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilisation of Zulu nationalism as anti-apartheid efforts gained momentum in South Africa in the 1980s. As well as the dilemma of feminist politics when culture and gender compete as categories of loyalty and identification. It also studies patriarchy from a Zulu context to the male-dominated world of capitalist economies.