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Title:Behind the Indaba: The Making of the KwaNatal Option
Author:Glaser, DarylISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:2
Pages:4-30
Language:English
Geographic terms:KwaZulu
South Africa
Natal
Subjects:bantustans
constitutional reform
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
External link:https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/12/OBJ/download
Abstract:The possibility of a KwaNatal option first seriously began to be discussed in the later 1970s at a time when central government was pursuing its 'homeland' policy actively. In Natal Pretoria wanted to persuade the KwaZulu government to take 'independence' and to consolidate the fragmented KwaZulu bantustan. These plans encountered stiff resistance from powerful Natal based interests. This paper describes the initiatives to establish a KwaNatal option, at the moment regarded as the 'only realistic constitutional initiative still alive in South Africa'. It discusses the birth of the KwaNatal option, Natal's spatial economy, and the balance of political forces in Natal/KwaZulu which made possible advanced constitutional experimentation and the attitude of the central government which, from around 1979, began to lay increased emphasis on political decentralization. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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