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THE SOUTH AFRICAN government's policy of granting 'independence' to the black reserves within its borders evoked considerable initial interest, particularly with regard to Transkei, the first black territory to be so blessed. Liberal writers approached the so-called 'homelands' with sympathy, giving serious consideration to their possible viability, and exploring their potential as an engine for future change. Three well-known American academics went so far as to dub Transkei as 'virtually the only ground where Africans can voice non-violent opposition to [the South African] regime.'l More radical analysts dismissed such arguments as politically obtuse. They were more interested in the role of the new black middle classes who had inherited the privileges which white traders and civil servants had formerly enjoyed. 'This classco-opted already in conception has . . . vested interest . . . in the maintenance of White capitalist domination in Southern Africa', declared Frank Molteno.2 But once the homelands had become a firmly established feature of the South African political scene, there was a considerable decline in analytic interest. If we except KwaZulu and Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, a figure of national significance, then the last fully documented study of any South African homeland has been Roger Southall's South Africa's Transkei, which was published in 1982.3 And even though the homelands have yielded numerous case studies with regard to health, education, ethnicity and gender issues, very little has appeared in the past decade on their political evolution since 'self-government' and/or 'independence'. Writers such as Keenan and Harries have published occasional papers on Bophuthatswana and

THE IMPLOSION OF TRANSKEI AND CISKEI