Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XI; 220 S.; kart.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. - Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Government Created Political Bodies -- Bantustans -- Transkei -- Ciskei -- Kwa-Zulu -- Lebowa -- Bophuthatswana -- Government Created Political Bodies -- South African Indian Council -- Government Created Political Bodies -- Coloured Persons Representative Council -- Security Laws and their Application -- Urban African Affairs -- Black Consciousness -- Black Organisations -- Political Pressure Groups -- Black People's Convention -- Natal Indian Congress South African Students' Organisation Self-help and Religious Groups -- Black Community Programmes -- Zimele Trust Fund -- Association for Self-Help -- Black Women's Federation of South Africa -- Institute for Black Research -- Institute of Black Studies -- Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre -- Interdenominational African Ministers' Association of South Africa -- Education-Primary and Secondary -- Education-Teacher, Technical and Vocational -- Education-Higher -- Black Labour -- Sport -- Arts and Entertainment -- Namibia. // The period under review, 1975-76, saw the maturity of the South African policy of Bantustans with the Transkei making definite preparations to get over the last hurdle of Bantustan development- attainment of independence. With maturity there emerged some characteristics of the policy, some of which, although they had always been suspected by people opposed to the system, had, however, strictly remained in the back pocket of the men in the real driving seat-the South African Prime Minister, John Vorster, and his key men in the Bantu Affairs Department. Some of these characteristics have brought the whole system of 'bantu stanisation' of the country into greater controversy than ever before. Of these characteristics that came up foremost was the capability of the policy to declare all Africans on the Southern part of the African continent, commonly known as South Africa, foreigners who had no rights, even to a limited extent, to citizenship of the country. They could be declared citizens of some nebulous states created by the South African Parliament. The Government was putting into practical effect the story, which had always been regarded only with theoretical significance, that the 18-20 million (it is not possible to give an accurate figure) African population in South Africa was, according to South African legislation, entitled to thirteen percent of the total surface area of the country. The provisions of the new South African Status of Transkei Act were seen by political observers as a precedent of similar provisions binding all future independent Bantustans. In a move that was apparently intended to cajole urban Africans to take Bantustan citizenship, the South African Government announced towards the end of 1975, that Africans in the urban areas could have leasehold agreements lasting thirty years over their homes, on condition that they first accepted citizenship of a Bantustan. This was only one of a battery of regulations that would compel Africans to find it more convenient to take Bantustan citizenship. Other measures in operation were that: when the birth of an African child was registered in the common area of South Africa, it had to be identified with a Bantustan. African professional men and traders seeking facilities for their businesses in the common area had to first declare identification with a Bantustan. Addressing the Swazi Territorial Authority in April 1976, the Minister of Bantu Administration, Mr M. C. Botha, said that Swazis who took Bantustan citizenship would enjoy privileges over non-Bantustanians in the common area in regard to housing, jobs and influx control. He was also reported to have said in Parliament that "Bantu persons who identify themselves with their own 'black nations' are much more welcome here in the white area than those who deny or hide their relationship with a 'black nation' of their own ... We must grant (them) more and more privileges". He said that preference should be given to them in available jobs, housing, having dependents with them, freedom of movement, hospitalisation, transport, schools, sport, etc. (S. 1 f.) ISBN 0620019581