New histories of South Africa's apartheid-era bantustans / edited by Shireen Ally and Arianna Lissoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ally, Shireen A., editor, contributor.

Lissoni, Arianna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homelands (South Africa)--History.

Homelands (South Africa).

Apartheid--South Africa--History.

Apartheid.

South Africa.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 222 pages : charts ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

The bantustans - or 'homelands' - of South Africa were created by the 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 was to write that 'politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians'. With the end of apartheid and the free 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.

Contents:

Preface: 'Let's talk about bantustans' / Shireen Ally and Arianna Lissoni

Introduction

Beyond 'homelands' : some ideas about the history of African rural areas in South Africa / William Beinart

'The bandwagon of golden opportunities'? Healthcare in South Africa's bantustan periphery / Anne Digby

The renewal of community health under the KwaZulu 'homeland' government / Elizabeth Hull

Bantustan education history : the 'progressivism' of Bophutatswana's Primary Education Upgrade Programme (PEUP), 1979-1988 / Linda Chisholm

Witchcraft and the South African bantustans : evidence from Bushbuckridge / Isak Niehaus

Ethnic separatism or cultural preservation? Ndebele Radio under apartheid, 1983-1994 / Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi

Rural reggae : the politics of performance in the former 'homeland' of Venda / Fraser G. McNeill

Bophuthatswana and the North-West Province : from Pan-Tswanaism to mineral-based ethnic assertiveness / Andrew Manson & Bernard Mbenga

'If you are hungry, and a man promises you mealies, will you not follow him?' South African Swazi ethnic nationalism, 1931-1986 / Shireen Ally

South Africa's bantustans and the dynamics of 'decolonisation' : reflections on writing histories of the homelands / Laura Evans.

Memoirs. Autobiography of an underground political activist / Vha-Musanda Vho-Shandukani Mudzunga (Manapule)

KaNgwane : a life in and beyond / Mabhuza Simeon Ginindza

Bophuthatswana and the North-West Province : the role of the joint administrators / Tebogo Job Mokgoro.

Notes:

"The following chapters were originally published in the South African Historical Journal, volume 64, issue 1 (March 2012)."--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Edition:

Also issued as: South African historical journal volume 64, issue (March 2012) w (DLC) 72620421

ISBN:

9781138290013

1138290017

OCLC:

982876352

Publisher Number:

99973539514