In this concatenated overview, the development of psychology in South Africa is traced from its origins in the late 19th century to the present. The seminal influences on the science and practice of psychology of the racialized polity and the responses to the prevailing regimen are also explored. The significant events in the patinated layers of psychological discourse and consequent policies in these constrained circumstances are traversed. Despite the nonracial era occasioned by the formation of the Psychological Society of South Africa three months before the advent of democracy under Nelson Mandela in 1994, the profession of psychology remains demographically skewed. Nevertheless, psychology in the current democratic dispensation enjoys a high profile and is actively engaged in ongoing and reflexive self-examination to ensure that it is more accessible and truly serves humanity. If Africa is psychology's last frontier, the critical denouement of the various issues confronting psychology in the southern tip of the African continent will provide a positive growth path that is likely to merit attention beyond its borders.
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机译：在这个串联的概述中，南非心理学的发展可以追溯到其起源于19世纪末到现在。还探讨了种族主义政体对科学和心理学实践的开创性影响以及对现行疗法的反应。在这些受限的情况下，遍历了心理学话语中的重要事件和相应的政策。尽管在1994年纳尔逊·曼德拉（Nelson Mandela）民主制出现之前的三个月内，南非心理学会（National Society of South Africa）的成立引发了非种族时代，但心理学界在人口统计学上仍然存在偏差。然而，当前民主体制中的心理学享有很高的知名度，并积极地进行着持续的反思性自我检查，以确保它更容易获得并真正为人类服务。如果非洲是心理学的最后疆界，那么在非洲大陆最南端对心理学所面临的各种问题的批判性否认将提供一条积极的增长道路，这很可能会引起人们的关注。
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