The bantustans - or 'homelands' - were created by South Africa's
apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans.
Granted self-governing and 'independent' status by Pretoria, they
aimed to deflect the demands for full political representation by
black South Africans and were shunned by the anti-apartheid
movement. In 1972, Steve Biko wrote that 'politically, the
bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white
politicians'. With the end of apartheid and the first democratic
elections of 1994, the bantustans formally ceased to exist, but
their legacies remain inscribed in South Africa's contemporary
social, cultural, political, and economic landscape. While the
older literature on the bantustans has tended to focus on their
repressive role and political illegitimacy, this edited volume
offers new approaches to the histories and afterlives of the former
bantustans in South Africa by a new generation of scholars. This
book was originally published as various special issues of the
South African Historical Journal.
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