HYPERSAMPLING IDENTITIES
Many of these practitioners reference fashions and styles of more established South African subcultural groups,specifically the Pantsulas and Swenkas. Both of these sub-cultural groups were and are influenced by elements of traditional and contemporary popular culture, and combine these with references from the urban environment in which they are located. As established sub-cultures originating in the 1970s, Pantsula and Swenking have contemporary relevance, not only because they are currently active, but also because both have created particular images of male black identities in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, two prominent ones being the ‘streetwise gangster-with-a-heart’ (the Pantsulas) and the ‘perfect gentleman’ (the Swenkas) (Goeller 2014a:[sp]).