- Title
- Chieftainship in Transkeian political development
- Creator
- Hammond-Tooke, W D
- Date
- 1964
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6113
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003835
- Description
- In November 1963 the inhabitants of the Transkeian Territories, the largest block of Bantu reserve in the Republic of South Africa, went to the polls to elect representatives for a Legislative Assembly, upon whom the responsibility for the government of this, the first so-called ‘Bantustan’ to achieve a limited form of self-government, is to be laid. The election was the culminating point in a series of changes in the administrative structure of the area which have been characterized by an emphasis on the institution of chieftainship as the basis of local government. After approximately 60 years of rule through magistrates (later supplemented by a system of district councils) the Bantu Authorities Act of 1955 was introduced, giving greatly enhanced powers to the Chiefs, who now became the heads of the tribally-structured Bantu Authorities.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Journal of Modern African Studies
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Hammond-Tooke, W.D. (1964) Chieftainship in Transkeian political development. Journal of Modern African Studies, 2 (4). pp. 513-529. ISSN 0022-278X
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