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SOUTH AFRICAN REALITIES AND REALPOLITIK
Author(s) -
HORWITZ RALPH
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.1978.tb02230.x
Subject(s) - tribe , realpolitik , resentment , state (computer science) , unitary state , nonsense , political science , supporter , race (biology) , ethnology , sociology , gender studies , genealogy , history , law , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , computer science , gene
South Africa is a country of major and powerful tribes, of many sub‐tribes, of one large non‐tribe, and of two articulate communities (the Asians and mixed‐race coloureds). Chief among the tribes in their history and their right to control tracts of South Africa are the white Afrikaner tribe led by Mr, Vorster himself and the black Zulus led by Chief Gatsha Buthelezi. Both dominate, but are feared and resented by, the rest of their respective racial communities. The two are, and have been for hundreds of years, each other's prime adversaries…. To advocate one man, one vote in a unitary state as the solution to such a patchwork of racial resentments and history frankly seems a nonsense….