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Title: | Revolt in the Bantustans: apartheid's master plan in ruins |
Author: | Zuma, Thando |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | The African Communist |
Issue: | 122 |
Pages: | 18-28 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | bantustans national liberation movements |
Abstract: | South Africa's bantustans pose a thorny political question for the country's revolutionaries. There can be no doubt that the bantustan system services the interests of the apartheid State. Those who participate in such structures have traditionally been seen by the resistance movement as 'sell-outs'. The present author argues that South African revolutionaries must approach the bantustan question as part of the overall tactics they employ to achieve the strategic objectives of the national democratic revolution. Although some of the bantustans have been the most repressive areas of South Africa, opposition movements, e.g. in Bophuthatswana and Venda, have been developing, based amongst workers, students and traditional chiefs. The emergence of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) in 1987 has contributed a great deal to the organization of the rural masses in the bantustans, thereby weakening the system. Both the ANC and the South African Communist Party recently indicated a willingness to become involved in bantustan politics. |