Both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell made the point very clearly at earlier "Roadmap" summits that the emerging 23rd Arab state - and second Arab one to be created within the borders of ...

In the bad old days when baases were baases and Bantoes were Bantoes, homeland leaders and puppet councillors were the source of much entertainment. Tales abounded of their flaws and general stupidity ...

Among their charges are that the Bill will rekindle apartheid geography and is being used to promote land grabbing by mining companies. The Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Bill will not only give ...

Newly confirmed American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently held a press conference in which she emphasized the need for the emergence of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state. Previously, ...

The white Afrikaner administrator swept his hand out to show the poverty of the Transkei in South Africa: the round mud houses with their thatched cone roofs, the green hilly land that produced only a ...

The “induced euphoria” that characterises discussions within the mainstream media around the upcoming declaration of an independent Palestinian state in September ignores the stark realities on the ...

The system of ID cards is used as a weapon to further cement the fragmentation of the Palestinian population as it confines the Palestinians to their geographic Israeli-controlled Bantustans [EPA] ...

The argument of this article is based on a close comparison of two Bantustan areas in South Africa: the Matatiele district in the Transkei and Qwaqwa in the Orange Free State. Such comparisons are ...