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Die Antwoord are a South African rap group based in Cape Town that has achieved unparalleled success in the Western world. Whereas their Western fan base is vast, fervent, and embraces the group for their African Otherness, they are far less revered or even respected in their home nation. Die Antwoord's artistic production possesses a distinct postcolonial and postmodern mandate to tactically confront, through parody, what they view as the racial injustices of post-apartheid South Africa. Problematically, to reinscribe their whiteness, they unapologetically appropriate the unique cultural signs and symbols of other persecuted and unacknowledged South African races and cultures.