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Title: | The Zulu Petit Bourgeoisie and Zulu Nationalism in the 1920s: Origins of Inkatha |
Author: | Cope, Nicholas |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 431-451 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | nationalism Zulu middle class political parties Inkatha Freedom Party Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636889 |
Abstract: | The political conflicts so characteristic of Natal, South Africa, today have had a long history, and so too have the South African State's moves to control Natal through political alliances with the province's conservative Zulu nationalists. This paper focuses on those historical developments and events that led to the formation of the first Inkatha in 1924: the influence of the petit bourgeois community in Northern Natal's Vryheid district, the role of the 1924 radical 'coup' in the hitherto conservative Natal Native Congress, and the contribution of American-origined ideas of black consciousness. From the mid-1920s, the Inkatha organization was primarily responsible for moulding the political content of contemporary Zulu nationalist sentiment. As royal 'think tank' and 'official' party for Zulu royalists, Inkatha was nonetheless always dominated by Christian and educated individuals of the Zulu petit bourgeoisie. Notes, ref. |