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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Rural politics: introduction
Author:Ritchken, E.
Year:1990
Periodical:South African Review - SARS
Issue:5
Pages:390-402
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:bantustans
local politics
political conditions
political action
1980-1989
Abstract:The mid-1980s were marked by political mobilization and resistance unparallelled in the history of South Africa, and rural and bantustan areas were not excluded from this process. Although the rural areas were influenced by uprisings in the townships, their processes of mobilization were structured by the specific history and political context faced by each region. This introduction explores some of the processes that shaped political mobilization in the rural areas during the 1980s: labour tenancy, migrancy and forced removals, the creation of bantustans and the subsequent transformation of chiefs into paid bureaucrats, the position of small traders, land shortage and land tenure, and ethnicity and ethnic organization. Note, ref.
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