Politics and discourse in South Africa / Mirjana N. Dedaic and Sally Hunt -- Mandela speaks to the nation : The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience / Mirjana N. Dedaic -- Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa / Ian Siebörger and Ralph Adendorff -- To be or not to be "African" : Discursive race politics in a South African online forum / Stephanie Rudwick -- De- and recontextualising xenophobia : discursive representations of non-nationals in the tabloid Daily Sun during attacks on immigrants in April -May 2008 / Carla Els -- "Xenophobia is an African sickness; a greater African disease" : Contesting dominant migrant discourse through opposing metaphors / Leigh Crymble -- From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers : Changing representations of gay and lesbian identities in South Africa / Tracey Lee McCormick and Tommaso M. Milani -- "Mother of the nation" : Representations of womanhood in the South African media / Sally Hunt -- Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state / Claudia Ortu -- Emzabalazweni : Singing the language of struggle, past and present / Janet Cherry.