Word: kwazulu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority, with most of the 36 seats taken by white, Asian and "colored" officials who are already part of the structure of apartheid. Most prominent blacks have sworn not to sit in the new assembly, which some have called a toy telephone. Said Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu black homeland: "Black leaders have long passed the point in history where they can be used as rubber stamps for the real intentions of the country's white political leadership...
...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...
...Natal Indaba, as he knows, does not represent most residents of Natal; in fact, none of the negotiators were elected by anyone. Buthelezi was appointed to his post by the 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...
...surprisingly, given who drew them up, theIndaba proposals (thus far rejected by the centralgovernment) suggest precisely the kind of outcomethat Huntington advocated in 1981: this is theleading consociational plan for South Africa. Itwould create a regionally autonomous governmentfor a combined Natal Province and Kwazulu, withtwo houses of parliament. One chamber would beelected at large, with universal adult franchise.But the other chamber would be formed throughracially-divided voters' rolls, with 10representatives for each racial or language groupand a final category for people choosing to vote a"nonracial" roll. Each separate bloc of Afrikaans,English, Zulu, Asian and 'non-racial'representatives would...
Another widespread concern of antiapartheid activists is that new corporate owners, whether they are local South Africans or foreign employers, will not follow the nondiscriminatory employment practices that were observed by most U.S. businesses. Warns Dr. Oscar Dhlomo, Minister of Education in the KwaZulu homeland: "The door that had opened to a life of equal opportunity on the factory floor has suddenly been slammed in the black worker's face...