Die polities-geografiese ontwikkeling van Transkei vanaf 1913 tot 1976

[摘要] English: The political geographical independence of Transkei in 1976 was theoutcome and culmination of the evolutionary interaction betweenterritory, systems of government and subjects (people) over aspan of more than three centuries. During this political-geographicalevolution of the subordinate (Transkei), the SouthAfrican Government acted as dominant actor which itself traverseda period of political-geographical interaction and emancipation ofterritory, systems of government and subjects.To·peacefully accommodate non-assimilatory and clashing cultures(Western vs Third World) in one restricted, delimited space (laterthe Republic of South Africa) a unique strategy of spatialorganization, viz of spatial subdivision, and almost total to totalpolitical segregation has been put to the test and brought intopractice by the dominant actor(s), Holland, Britain, South Africa,for more than three centuries. Especially during the twentiethcentury it has become all the more clear to the South AfricanGovernment(s), as the dominant actor, that this strategy couldpresumably be the best of several political models to solve theotherwise forced space sharing by cultures of different,adversative and sometimes implacable social, economic,perceptional, but especially political aspirations and saturationlevels.The political-geographical strategies applied by the differentSouth African Governments during the twentieth century in anevolutionary fashion, developed the. Transkei from an adjustedtribal control (amongst others the Bunga system), through directedbut culture-adjusted separate development (a people develops at itsown pace, according to its own norms, urges, needs and perceptionsto its own political geographical goals in its own territory),through absolute territorial separation and territorialconsolidation with self-government, to a type of tribal-adjusteddemocratic independence. To accomplish these strategies, namelypolitical, economic, social, educational and gradual emancipationprocesses were generated and manipulated to attain idealizedgovernment patterns and territorial consolidated spatial patterns.Internal acceptance by the subordinate actor (Transkei) of thesesuperimposed strategies and processes gradually eased, resistancefrom within the Transkeian Territory crumbled, or was suppressedwithin and outside Transkei, or went underground. The selfgoverningTranskei took its own initiative to request total spatialdisengagement and governmental independence from its once dominantactor. Transkei became independent on 26 October 1976.Two malevolent factors which detrimentally influencinginternational recognition (acceptance) of Transkeian independencewere citizenship rights and the unyielding resistance. by the OAUand UN.

[发布机构] University of the Free State