Word: bantustan
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...from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says one ZANU official in Mozambique: "At least the leader of a so-called independent Bantustan in South Africa can fire his own police chief." The advantage of the new system to the whites, he contends, is that when the Rhodesian army commits its next atrocity against African villagers, it will have "a black mouth to defend...
...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...
...addition, he said, Prime Minister John Vorster is speeding up the rate at which the Bantustan--the 13 per cent of the land area which has been designated as the black majority's share of the country--are being given independence, so that soon "it will be impossible to unscramble this scrambled mess," Brutus said...
...Swardt said that blacks will no longer have to carry passes. But these passes are merely being replaced by "passports" issued by Bantustan administrations. They will continue to serve the same function: to prevent blacks from living permanently or with their families in the "white" areas, which contain 87 per cent of South Africa's territory and all important towns, resources and agriculture. Most blacks must work there, but they are often forced to leave their spouses and children behind in the Bantustans...
...regime's ultimate aim is to set up a number of "independent" Bantustans, sharing less than 13 per cent of the country's territory, in South Africa. The 75 per cent of the population which is African could only be "citizens" of these areas. They could only stay in the "white" areas if employed by whites; "superfluous appendages"-as the regime calls African wives and children--would have to be left behind in the starving Bantustans. This policy is so repugnant that it has even been rejected by all but two of the Bantustan leaders picked by the regime. Blacks...