New histories of South Africa's apartheid-era bantustans
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New histories of South Africa's apartheid-era bantustans
Routledge, 2018, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The bantustans - or 'homelands' - were created by South Africa's apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and 'independent' status by Pretoria, they aimed to deflect the demands for full political representation by black South Africans and were shunned by the anti-apartheid movement. In 1972, Steve Biko wrote that 'politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians'. With the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections of 1994, the bantustans formally ceased to exist, but their legacies remain inscribed in South Africa's contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic landscape. While the older literature on the bantustans has tended to focus on their repressive role and political illegitimacy, this edited volume offers new approaches to the histories and afterlives of the former bantustans in South Africa by a new generation of scholars. This book was originally published as various special issues of the South African Historical Journal.
Table of Contents
Preface: 'Let's Talk About Bantustans' Introduction - Beyond 'Homelands': Some Ideas about the History of African Rural Areas in South Africa 1. 'The Bandwagon of Golden Opportunities'? Healthcare in South Africa's Bantustan Periphery 2. The Renewal of Community Health under the KwaZulu 'Homeland' Government 3. Bantustan Education History: The 'Progressivism' of Bophutatswana's Primary Education Upgrade Programme (PEUP), 1979-1988 4. Witchcraft and the South African Bantustans: Evidence from Bushbuckridge 5. Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983-1994 6. Rural Reggae: The Politics of Performance in the Former 'Homeland' of Venda 7. Bophuthatswana and the North-West Province: From Pan-Tswanaism to Mineral-Based Ethnic Assertiveness 8. 'If you are hungry, and a man promises you mealies, will you not follow him?' South African Swazi Ethnic Nationalism, 1931-1986 9. South Africa's Bantustans and the Dynamics of 'Decolonisation': Reflections on Writing Histories of the Homelands Memoirs 10. Autobiography of an Underground Political Activist 11. KaNgwane: A Life in and Beyond 12. Bophuthatswana and the North-West Province: The Role of the Joint Administrators
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