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...what's left? Huntington offers "a small ray of hope" in the form of local or regional negotiations, along the lines of the Natal Indaba. There, he says, white officials and businessmen on one side, and Kwazulu bantustan chief minister Gatsha Buthelezi on the other, are managing to talk to each other. This, he suggests, provides an example for other local negotiations, a pattern that "could gradually build up from below and lead to national negotiations and more fundamental change at the national level...
Goldman says Buthelezi assumed responsibility for leading the Zulu people in order to prevent their homeland from becoming a "so-called independent Bantustan." Goldman cites the chief's role in efforts to form a South African legislature made up of both Black and whites as another reason for honoring him with a degree...
Another passage describes Margaret Mpanza, a 46-year-old Black woman who has worked as a maid since the age of 16. Mpanza lives with her white employers, 20 miles from the bantustan where her disabled husband and two grandchildren live. She is lucky to make it home twice a month...
...moving passage, Swanson recounts his visit with Nokukanya Luthuli, widow of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Chief Luthuli, who was banned for speaking out against apartheid. Luthuli, together with the other 25,000 Black residents of the region, had just staved off a government attempt to force them into a bantustan. Swanson found the 76-year-old woman outside, working in her garden...
...residential areas. The remainder would go to finance a few strtictly segregated hospitals and schools. These latter projects can do little to alleviate the catastrophic conditions in which apartheid has placed millions of Blacks. The Black infant mortality rate is six times greater than that for whites: two million bantustan inhabitants live in constant danger of starvation. In the face of all this, anyone attempting to represent the Citibank loan as a positive step must be woefully misinformed or willfully ignorant...