Word: kwazulu
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...called "black spot," an area of black settlement surrounded mainly by white farmers. For several years, in keeping with South Africa's policy of apartheid, the government has tried to persuade the 7,000 black farmers of Driefontein to move to black "homelands" in the desolate Kangwane and Kwazulu regions. The blacks have bitterly resisted the move, and last week the conflict turned bloody...
...efforts to make even a modified homelands scheme palatable to blacks, Botha still faces determined opposition from a formidable black spokes man: Gatsha Buthelezi, the leader of 5.5 million Zulus, who form South Africa's largest ethnic bloc. Their territory, called KwaZulu, consists of 29 land fragments in a region otherwise reserved for whites...
Says Buthelezi: "KwaZulu will never seek independence of the kind offered by Pretoria. The homelands policy is futile and meaningless. We will opt to remain South Africans and gain the right to participate in the government of this country...
...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...