Homelands System
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A powerful elite traces its roots to bonds formed at mission schools
The elite networks of the early 20th-century ANC leadership, with so many coming from a mission-school rural background, are still really important.
Bantustans are dead – long live the Bantustans
The dynamics of power established under apartheid, especially in the ‘homelands’, still play a major role in rural government.
Memories of a battered butcher
He was the Butcher of Bisho. Brigadier Oupa Gqozo earned that ugly epithet after his troops opened fire on a group of protesters in 1992, killing 29.