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...apartheid. For ten years, blacks have streamed into the area and patched together flimsy huts out of odds and ends--bits of wood and plastic, old garbage bags, corrugated iron and cardboard. Most of the settlement's residents were "illegals" from the impoverished government-created tribal homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, which offer no employment, no money and no food. Almost as fast as the blacks kept pouring in, the authorities kept pushing them back, smashing their shacks and returning the illegals to the homelands. Despite the government's efforts, however, the population of Crossroads mushroomed...
...ostrich. Ciskei (pop. 2 million), carved out of unwanted land on South Africa's southeastern coast, is the most ambitious of the four resettlement areas that South Africa has created as "national states" and used as a dumping ground for 6 million blacks. Like the others (Bophuthatswana, Transkei and Venda), Ciskei is recognized as a state only by South Africa. The rest of the world regards it as just another offshoot of South Africa's 25-year-old policy of whittling away its non-white majority (80% of the country's 30 million people) by forcing black...
...Defense Force, explained that the raid, unofficially named "Operation Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
Under the government's long-term plan for "separate development," South Africa's 20 million blacks are being designated citizens of the various new "inde pendent homelands," such as Transkei and Bophuthatswana, regardless of where they happen to live. The plan, in depriving blacks of South African citizenship, ensures that whites will be the majority group within South Africa. But that still leaves the coloreds and the Asians, who cannot be disposed of so neatly under the legerdemain of apartheid...
...power sharing. I stand for the idea of a confederation of independent states, cooperating on matters like water conservation, tourism, economic development. We have come to an agreement on regional development with Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei [the already established black "homelands"]. Now then, you have the coloreds and the South African Asians. The President's Council [an appointive body established to consider constitutional change] is at present considering ways and means of enabling [these communities] to share in joint decisions, making that possible without disturbing or destroying the rights of others...