Transkei beyond the Transition: Towards Good Government of Back to the Frontier?

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Title:	Transkei beyond the Transition: Towards Good Government of Back to the Frontier?
Authors:	Southall, Roger J. Segar, Julia Donaldson, Andrew
Year:	1992
Periodical:	Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Volume:	11
Issue:	2
Pages:	270-279
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	South Africa Transkei
Subjects:	future development Politics and Government
Abstract:	One of the most remarkable developments in South Africa's unsteady progress towards a negotiated settlement has been the ANC's shift from an insistence upon a centralized, unitary constitution towards acceptance of significant powers for regional levels of government. With respect to Transkei the following scenario needs to be taken seriously: that a successor territory to Transkei will win for itself considerable regional autonomy and continuity of governance, while inheriting an increasingly dependent regional economy and intractable development problems. The authors comment briefly upon three fundamental challenges which this successor territory faces if a new regional dispensation is not to become a new vehicle - and victim - of spatial discrimination in the postapartheid political economy. These are challenges in the economic field (employment, incomes and food security); in the field of social services (education, health and welfare); and in the field of politics (democracy).