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Abstract This article offers an overview of the changing social formation of South Africa from the standardisation of apartheid in the late 1940s to the present, and its representation in the literature and Identity, reflecting the relocation of literary history of the "New" South Africa as a nation undergoing transformations, specifically in the labour situation, land struggles and the politics of the Rainbow nation. By analysing historical and literary elements, it is possible to trace the emergence of a carping identity and literature which were shaped by the experiences of the South African Indian Diaspora community. Such identity is significant and transmittal to the country as a whole, and of reasonable value in nurturing socialist consciousness for countering current challenges of racism and materialist indifference. This paper falls into two broad sections, the first deals with the history and context of South African Indian Diasporic writings; the second section deals with Diaspora identity.