Word: bantustans
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...rule. The impoverished Palestinians live in squalid third-world conditions alongside the first-world Israeli settlers. Much like the black South Africans under my government’s rule, Palestinians can’t even travel on the same roads as the settlers, and they are confined to tiny Bantustans. When they wish to leave their Bantustan to go to the market, school or work, they are subject to the whims of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) officer in charge of the checkpoint. If he’s having a good day, then maybe they?...
Mandela has always taken the long view, and sometimes this gives him victories in battles that were started decades ago. After the government began to implement its Bantustan policies in the 1960s and '70s, a plan to relegate all blacks to poor, quasi-independent tribal homelands, Mandela urged the . A.N.C. to make peace with the black leaders of these enclaves whom many in the movement scorned as traitors. The A.N.C. shied away from this policy, but he kept arguing his case. In the past three years, however, the A.N.C. has brought these leaders into its embrace...
...beneficial consequence of such actions would be the channeling of funds away from corrupt leaders of puppet Bantustan governments (like Bophuthatswana, where Sun City is located) and directing them towards communities and organizations committed to bringing about true change. As a nation which trumpets the values of egalitarianism and humanitarianism, our actions should reflect as much...
...Pretoria government and receives "a not-ungenerous salary from the South African state." (11) The original idea for a Kwazulu-Natal indaba came from the South African Sugar Association, seeking to protect its sugar estates from falling under the communal land tenure that prevails on the Kwazulu bantustan. It was seconded by the Buthelezi Commission, which hoped to separate political planning "from popular participation, and placed decision-making in consensus sessions between leaders representing various constituencies...
...Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU or AZAPO. The mainparticipants in these 'negotiations' have beenwhite businessmen, some academics, Natalofficials, and bantustan governmentrepresentatives--hardly a representative group...