Version 1
: Received: 7 May 2024 / Approved: 8 May 2024 / Online: 8 May 2024 (08:52:22 CEST)
How to cite:
Twala, C.; Ndlovu, A. S. Dangling the Land as a Carrot’: The Bantustans and the Territorial Extension under the Apartheid Regime in South Africa. Preprints2024, 2024050464. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0464.v1
Twala, C.; Ndlovu, A. S. Dangling the Land as a Carrot’: The Bantustans and the Territorial Extension under the Apartheid Regime in South Africa. Preprints 2024, 2024050464. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0464.v1
Twala, C.; Ndlovu, A. S. Dangling the Land as a Carrot’: The Bantustans and the Territorial Extension under the Apartheid Regime in South Africa. Preprints2024, 2024050464. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0464.v1
APA Style
Twala, C., & Ndlovu, A. S. (2024). Dangling the Land as a Carrot’: The Bantustans and the Territorial Extension under the Apartheid Regime in South Africa. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0464.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Twala, C. and Ayanda Sphelele Ndlovu. 2024 "Dangling the Land as a Carrot’: The Bantustans and the Territorial Extension under the Apartheid Regime in South Africa" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0464.v1
Abstract
The aim of this article is three-fold: firstly, it is to highlight how the different Bantustans with the focus to Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei also know as the (TBVC) States secured extra territories. However, these Bantustans remained unrecognized in the international community because of their financial dependence to the apartheid regime. Secondly, the successes and failures of this process are fundamental in understanding the territorial monopolies of the Bantustans and thirdly we will interrogate how the Bantustan residents who were against the process mobilized other residents to reject the proposal and attempts of territorial expansion. Furthermore, this article contributes to the broader Bantustan’s historiography on the intended economic spin-offs with these endeavors. We contend that the above have received little scholarly attention. The methodology of this article draws from an historical approach and utilizes a range of different archival documentary sources, most importantly material housed in South Africa’s national archives and British Commonwealth archives. In conclusion, we argue in this article that these developments of territorial expansion had little benefits for the Bantustans and the extended territories adjacent to them.
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