Bantustans

The Palestinian areas resemble "bantustans" - the supposedly ­autonomous black states within apartheid South Africa, which were in reality controlled by the racist regime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The enormous expenditure incurred to establish and maintain the bantustans is a result of grand apartheid designs. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Thus we would engage this enemy in political struggle, interpreting the centenary in the context of our national struggle and not of tribalism and the bantustans, which is what the apartheid regime was bound to do. ❋ Unknown (1985)

Daily life in the bantustans is a struggle for survival for those reduced to a landless and jobless existence, while workers on white farms experience daily oppression, often cut off by the great distances from other farm workers. ❋ Unknown (1985)

It consists in the conscious genocidal destruction of millions of Africans by banishing them to the so-called bantustans which are nothing but vast camps of hopelessness and death. ❋ Unknown (1983)

The struggle in the rural areas is also developing because the bantustans are a true injustice. ❋ Unknown (1983)

The continued mass removals of our people to the bantustans are a further extension of this policy of violent expropriation that comes with their deportation which has become more pernicious with each passing year. ❋ Unknown (1981)

For instance, for the first time in the history of exploitation of an indigenous population, the ruling regime is encouraging and is building up a black bourgeoisie, both in the rural areas where the so-called bantustans have been set up, and in the cities. ❋ Unknown (1978)

Blacks were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From 1958, Blacks were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The aim was to ensure that the black workers required for mining and manufacture were temporary sojourners in the urban areas with traditional homes in the rural countryside (the so-called bantustans, or independent homelands in government parlance). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even Sharon was willing to withdraw from those parts of the West Bank he didn't want, and he would have been happy for the Palestinian to call the bantustans they were left with a "state" (or, as Netanyahu's spokesperson suggested when Netanyahu was Prime Minister, they can call it "fried chicken" - it really doesn't matter). ❋ Unknown (2009)

We just [walked] into the Bantustan, yo...we are [def] [fucked] now! ❋ Wctgilroy (2010)