Bantu Authorities
Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
In Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity, Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner provides the first holistic study of the Bantu Authorities (BA) system that implemented rural apartheid. The system extended segregation by including ethnos theory to establish underfunded “self-governing” homelands to curb the expense of “native” administration yet retain control of the cheap labor upon which white capital depended. Based on over sixty interviews with Zulus and former commissioners, and archival research, Bantu Authorities proves the primary objective of the system was to protect white capital, with white racial purity secondary. Ehrenreich-Risner argues that the system disrupted the Brownlee tradition of guardianship for commissioners and the tradition of reciprocity for ubukhosi. Bantu Authorities ends by examining the lingering consequences of rural apartheid and asks what rural Africans have gained with majority rule when they remain bound to BA structures.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-3126-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-3127-5
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 366
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Figures No access
- Tables No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Abbreviations and Acronyms No access
- A Note to the Reader on Historical Terminology No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 42
- Prologue No access
- Ch01. The Strained Relationship between amaZulu and the Department No access
- Ch02. The Case of inkosi Lindelihle Mzimela and the Commissioners No access
- Ch03. Financing the Homelands No access
- Ch04. Removals: Ngesikhathi Sobandlululo (during Apartheid) No access
- Ch05. Devolution to the Homelands No access
- Ch06. The Buthelezi Factor No access
- Conclusion No access
- Epilogue No access
- Appendix A. 1954 BaRolong Meetings to Respond to Bantu Authorities Act No access Pages 311 - 314
- Appendix B. Legislation: Bantu Authorities Act 68/1951 and Bantu Laws Amendment Act 42/1964: Sections 77–80 No access Pages 315 - 330
- Bibliography No access Pages 331 - 346
- Index No access Pages 347 - 364
- About the Author No access Pages 365 - 366





