The Independence of Transkei - a Largely Constitutional Inquiry

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ID4253229
AutoresWilliam B Harvey (0009-0007-2519-0161), W H B Dean
Ano1978
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas189-220
Data de publicação1978-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00021686
OpenAlexW2128279580
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas13

TheSouth African commitment to racial separation is well-known. The deep historic roots ofapartheid, the religious fervour with which it is justified by its proponents, and the rapidly growing weight of criticism by which it is condemned throughout the world have served to make it a familiar ideology and policy. Less well-known is the extent to which separation in a relatively superficial, transient context - in stores, theatres, parks, some hotels and restaurants - has been eroded in recent years. Least familiar, despite the substantial propaganda of apologists for the system, is the transmutation of the negative commitment toapartheidinto an affirmative effort to foster and guide what the Government labels 'separate development'. One of the most significant achievements thus far of this policy was the birth on 26 October 1976 of Transkei, presented to a doubting world by its South African parent as a sovereign, independent nation in which its African citizens could work out their destiny, just as the dominant white population of the Republic of South Africa assert an entitlement to realise their own

Ambivalence · Context (archaeology) · Criticism · Destiny (ISS module) · Economics · Entitlement (fair division) · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Independence (probability theory) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Rhetoric · Sociology · White (mutation) · Demography · History · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture