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Title: | Inkatha versus the Rest: Black Opposition to Inkatha in Durban's African Townships |
Authors: | Sutcliffe, Michael Wellings, Paul A. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 87 |
Issue: | 348 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 325-360 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa KwaZulu |
Subjects: | Inkatha Freedom Party boundaries Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government nationalism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722437 |
Abstract: | Analyses of Inkatha, the Zulu 'national liberation movement', have fallen into two broad categories. The first of these stresses the apparently rapid growth of the movement and the characteristics of its leadership. The second provides a more critical evaluation of the political positions that have been adopted by Inkatha, and it goes further in its assessment of what social forces Inkatha represents. This paper analyses Inkatha in the context of a specific concrete issue: the planned incorporation of several Durban townships into KwaZulu. Incorporation involves the manipulation of 'homeland' boundaries to enclose African townships, thereby transferring administrative control from white local authorities to the 'homeland' in question. Inkatha has worked closely with Pretoria and the local urban authorities to expedite the process. The townships are opposed to incorporation. An analysis of the incorporation issue brings into clear focus the reactionary tendencies within Inkatha which explain its growing alienation from progressive black organizations in South Africa. Notes, ref. |