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Title: | Inkatha and Regional Control: Policing Liberation Politics |
Author: | Maré, Gerhard |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 45-46 |
Pages: | 179-189 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa KwaZulu |
Subjects: | political parties Inkatha Freedom Party bantustans nationalism Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248908703840 |
Abstract: | Under P.W. Botha, power in South Africa shifted to the executive and to the repressive apparatuses of the State and ultimate control came to be held by the State Security Council, operating through the National Security Management System (NSMS). The main concern of the present briefing is with the manner in which the Inkatha movement, based on Natal/KwaZulu, has become a part of this process while maintaining its claim to be a 'liberation movement'. The author argues that Inkatha's 'liberation struggle' has been waged largely at the level of political rhetoric and that in much of its political practice it has remained, of necessity, part of the very structures which it claims to undermine. There is a total overlap between the Inkatha movement and the structures of the KwaZulu bantustan. Inkatha has used the formal power made available by the State (e.g. tribal authority and the Zulu police) as well as developing its own structures and ideologies of control (e.g. of 'Zulu manhood' and 'Zulu military prowess'). Furthermore, at the local level, Inkatha members have been involved in 'warlordism', seeking to consolidate their local base by force, using the power ceded to them regionally by the State. Inkatha leaders are committed to defend many aspects of power relations as they are presently constituted, and the future does not offer much prospect of change in this respect. Note, ref. |