Where were the usual suspects and praise singers with their rousing anthems, trumpets and marching elephants? What gives? Here was the Butternut Bantustan blueprint, a bold plan for radical economic ...
Set up on parcels of land – sometimes discontinguous for a single Bantustan, Bophuthatswana being the most notable example – no matter the vast amounts of money South Africa threw at them and the ...
They have been rejected out-of-hand because those solutions will confirm Palestine as an apartheid State where people will be compelled to live in Bantustan-type ghettos. Mainstream western media, in ...
It will mean corruption, patronage and insecurity. And it means that the economic stagnation that blights the Transkei, despite everything that is going for it, will be replicated throughout rural SA.
Jamal Kanj is the author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America, and other books. He writes frequently on Arab world issues for various national and ...