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Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations

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Main Author: Trevisan, Italo
Other Authors: Schrire, Robert A
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Political Studies 2016
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16992 Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations Trevisan, Italo Schrire, Robert A Homelands (South Africa) - Politics and government Bibliography: pages 381-191. Eight years after Transkei has been granted independence, the independent states have become an important component of the South African political landscape, and their existence cannot be ignored despite the fact that no other country but South Africa has recognised their independence. This thesis is concerned with the evaluation of the choice of independence. The reasons are examined which led the South African government to grant independence to the homelands, and those which induced some of the homeland leaders to accept it. An evaluation is made of the political and economic benefits and lack thereof this choice has brought to those who made it and to their communities, with a view to the role the independent states may play in future developments in South Africa. A descriptive-analytical approach has been adopted and the main subjects have been presented in their chronological unfolding, in order to stress the basic continuity in the aims pursued both on the part of the South African government and on the part of the homeland leaders, despite numerous tactical adaptations to the circumstances on both sides. Most of the information has been gathered from the Hansard of the House and from reports of various commissions and government White Papers. Official documents from the independent states and the economic corporations working therein have also been extensively used. Other information and data have been gathered during a period of fieldwork in Ciskei and Transkei and through a number of interviews. The time passed since the granting of independence to the homelands which opted for it is still too short for an exhaustive evaluation of the effects this choice had for their population. It is however possible to draw a few preliminary conclusions regarding the effects the independent states will have in the evolution of the political situation in South Africa. The most important is that they are here to stay, bar a total defeat of the white government in an all-out war, and that they may be a factor in a still possible peaceful solution of the South African problems. 2016-02-15T07:04:03Z 2016-02-15T07:04:03Z 1984 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16992 eng application/pdf Department of Political Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations
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title Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations
title_full Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations
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title_full_unstemmed Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations
title_short Independent homelands : an analysis of selected issues in South Africa-homeland relations
title_sort independent homelands an analysis of selected issues in south africa homeland relations
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