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| Title: | Black Urban Turmoil: Local Level Political Transformation and Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Pre-Election South Africa |
| Author: | De Jongh, Michael |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | South African Journal of Ethnology |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| Pages: | 83-90 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | ethnic relations townships Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| Abstract: | This article contributes to the debate on the politicizing of ethnicity in South Africa. Material obtained through fieldwork in five black townships in the PWV (Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging) area from September 1990 to the beginning of 1991 is used to show how the boundary between 'normal' and political crime became indistinct and that conflict was also a struggle for power. The article focuses on the violence used against black councillors by various civic organizations in the townships. Although an orchestrated campaign was indeed launched to oust the councillors, this was done against a background of widespread dissatisfaction, not only with their performance but also with the system of which they were a part. In the early 1990s, the civil war between supporters of the UDC-ANC alliance and the mainly rural, Zulu supported, Inkatha in Natal, reached into the black urban areas of Gauteng. The conflict in the PWV area became a conflict between Zulu and Xhosa, and it was almost inevitable that black local authorities and serving councillors were drawn into the fray. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and Afrikaans. |