Word: kwazulu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people in this country. Then we have got a very good regional government. The whites have got the provincial government. The simple fact of the matter is that the black states' government, from whichever point of view you look at it, is at least very good regional government. Kwazulu has got a very good administrative government, very good from the point of view of law and order and from any possible point of view. They are good types of government, and anybody must be stupid to think that you can ignore that in this constitutional process...
This systematic disinheritance has been bitterly denounced by Pretoria's critics at home and abroad. Says Zulu Chief Minister Gatsha Buthelezi, who adamantly opposes independence for his native Kwazulu: "We are not prepared to be a participant in this great political confidence trick. We are still South Africans and we will stay that way until we can share in the political decision-making and economic wealth of this great country...
...sunk because he accepts a bantustan [the land areas allocated to blacks under the South African government's policy of separate development] position and a bantustan salary as a leader of the bantustan Kwazulu. Nominally he has a lot of supporters, but I think his position is eroding every day. He's in the position [Bishop Abel] Muzerewa was in Rhodesia a year ago. Open that society up, and let them all talk freely--let Mandela come off Robben Island prison tomorrow and say that Buthelezi is a no-no, which he would--and Buthelezi's support would melt like...
...Chief Kaiser Matanzima, took the occasion to attack "the rejection of our legitimacy" by the outside world. In December a second homeland, Bophuthatswana, will officially become independent, and three more are likely to follow within the next two years. The only one definitely holding out against such independence is KwaZulu, whose leader, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, dismisses the whole idea as a sham...
...ancestral homeland, 70% of the population would be packed into 13% of the land, much of it arid and unprofitable. Only one homeland, Basotho-QwaQwa, is composed of a single piece of land. The others are broken into two or more parts, surrounded by white South Africa. KwaZulu was in 29 pieces five years ago, but eventually will be consolidated into six. Homeland leaders are demanding more land, if only to link their fragmented areas together...