Word: bantustans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only homeland that has been turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...
...Xhosa tribesmen of Transkei, seeking a Prime Minister for South Africa's first "self-governing" Bantustan (TIME, Nov. 29), last week gave an overwhelming majority of their votes to Paramount Chief Victor Poto. But as it turned out, Poto did not get the job. Instead the office went to Chief Kaizer Matanzima, the candidate preferred by the South African government. Poto wants white men and white investment capital in the Transkei, while Matanzima, a black racist, supports the idea of an all-black state...
...first Bantustan on Verwoerd's list was the Transkei, a Denmark-size (16,500 sq. mi.) area of eroded farm land on the Indian Ocean. Nobody knows the troubles it has seen. Ever since Africans went on a rampage there more than two years ago, murdering the government's handpicked tribal chiefs and setting fire to entire villages, mobile police patrols armed with Sten guns, armored cars, and helicopter spotter planes have had to stay on duty in parts of the Transkei. Fortnight ago, a white family of four were capriciously hacked to death with pangas as they...
Last week, as the Parliament in Cape Town prepared to debate a bill legally establishing the Transkei Bantustan-certain to pass the Nationalist Party-controlled legislature, probably by June-there was more trouble. The government plans to make Kaizer Matanzima. a mission-educated Tembu chief, the chief minister of the new Transkei government. The bodyguard of a headman serving Matanzima got into a tribal fight with 40 warriors armed with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into...
...region will be lacking. Verwoerd has promised an annual budget subsidy of $30 million, but this falls far short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political opposition from another Tembu chief, Sabata Dalindyebo, who does not like the Bantustan idea at all. Dalindyebo demands multiracial political rule "in which the color of a man's skin plays no part in his civil rights. By accepting self-government," he warns, "we fear we will be enclosing ourselves in a pigsty...