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Title: | Human rights in the homelands |
Authors: | Woker, Tanya Clarke, Sue |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | South African Human Rights and Labour Law Yearbook |
Volume: | 1 |
Pages: | 152-170 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | bantustans human rights |
Abstract: | To date there are four independent homelands in South Africa: Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei (the so-called TBVC States); and six self-governing territories: KwaZulu, KwaNdebele, QwaQwa, Lebowa, KaNgwane and Gazankulu. The authors look at economic and political developments in the bantustans in 1988-1989, the citizenship issue, and repression and control, which has often been more severe than in the rest of South Africa. In Transkei, however, there appears to be a growing mood of liberalism since early 1989. And chiefs in KwaNdebele and Moutse formed the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) in September 1987 in order to challenge the bantustan system and, in particular, the KwaNdebele administration's attempts to gain 'independence'. South Africa's bantustan governments face an increasingly uncertain future, as expectations for re-incorporation into South Africa and growing resentment against poverty rise. Notes, ref. |