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The Mythical "Independence" of Transkei: A sinister plan of the apartheid regime http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuun1976_41 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org The Mythical "Independence" of Transkei: A sinister plan of the apartheid regime Alternative title Notes and Documents - United Nations Centre Against ApartheidNo. 30/76 Author/Creator United Nations Centre against Apartheid; Romulo, Carlos P. Publisher United Nations, New York Date 1976-11-00 Resource type Reports Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa, Namibia Coverage (temporal) 1966 - 1976 Source Northwestern University Libraries Description Independence Declaration Condemned. "Inventors" Ingenuity. Not Even Asked. What Rights? Hypocrisy. Coat of Arms. Format extent 7 page(s) (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.SFF.DOCUMENT.nuun1976_41 http://www.aluka.org No. 30/76 No. 30/76 CENTRE AGAINST APARTHEID DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SECURITY COUNCIL AFFAIRS NOTES AND DOCUMENTS* Nqvember 1976 THE MYTHICAL "INDEPENDENCE" OF TRANSKEI A sinister plan of the apartheid r6gime by H. E. Dr. Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Philippines 76-22134 * All material in these notes and documents may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgement, together with a copy of the publication containing the reprint, would be appreciated. Ten years ago today, the General Assembly took a historic decision revoking the mandate of South Africa over Namibia and accepting responsibility for the Namibian people. The resolution adopted yesterday~by this Assembly on the so-called independent Transkei and other bantustans was equally historic, for yesterday was a day that will be long unremembered, the day of a non-event, a non-happening. At the stroke of midnight on Monday, a 101-gun salute announced the mythical independence of an invented State, the Transkei. I doubt if anyone really knows what the Transkei is supposed to be: a tribal reservation for the Xhosas, a puppet republic, a colony in disguise, or a gigantic labour barracks. But we can be sure of one thing: as an independent State, it does not exist. Its nearest neighbours ignore it. The Government of Swaziland has been quoted as declaring it will 7'continue to recognize the Transkei as a region of South Africa and nothing more". The Government of Lesotho, for its part, is said to have decided that the Transkei does not appear to "meet the requirements"-of an independent State. The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in Port Louis, Mauritius, less than four months ago, committed its member States "not to accord recognition to any bantustan, in particular the Transkei". Independence Declaration Condemned This General Assembly, in its resolution 3411 D (XXX), which was adopted at its thirtieth session with 99 votes in favour, none against, and 8 abstentions, called "upon all Governments and organizations not to deal with any institutions or authorities of the bantustans or to accord any form of recognition to them". And the Special Committee agianst Apartheid, in its current annual report "recommends that the General Assembly /at its present session 7 condemn the declaration of 'independence' of the Transkei as utterly invalid; call on all Governments to refrain from extending any form of recognition to the Transkei and any contact with the authorities of that bantustan; call on all corporations, organizations, institutions and individuals to refrain from any dealings with the puppet authorities in the Transkei; and declare that the inhabitants of the Transkei and all others designated as 'citizens' of that bantustan remain citizens of South Africa, with full rights to decide the destiny of that country as a whole." * General Assembly resolution 31/6A of 26 October 1976 I am glad that the foregoing recommendations of the Special Committee in their essentials have been approved- it is thus abundantly clear that the Transkei does not exist as an independent State and is not being internationally recognized as such. Nevertheless, particularly because of the political weight of those eight abstentions to resolution 3411 D of the thirtieth session, the question must be faced: why should not the Transkei be recognized as a viable and legitimate independent State? Why? If it is poor and under -developed, so are many of our own countries. If it must live on subsidies, many of our own countries require loans and foreign aid. And after all the Transkei is larger than six independent African countries and more populous than 13. Inventors' : Ingenuity Indeed one must admire the ingenuity of the inventors, what we might call the manufacturers, of the Transkei. They have, so to speak, stolen the clothes of the nationalists, or at least their language. Do the black citizens of South Africa claim they are the victims of oppression and subjugation? Then, according to these inventors, give them their own country. Do they protest against having to carry passes? Then give them passports instead. Do they raise an international scandal about the shame and evil or apartheid? Then, the inventors of this mythical State say, segregate them all in their own homelands. For that is in truth what the Transkei and the other bantustans amount to: massive segregations, segregation by the millions. the system of partheid carried to its monstrous logical conclusion. There was a perverse genius at work there, with sinister reminiscences of Adolf Hitler. You will remember, as I am sure none of us can ever forget, the Nazi solution to what they considered the Jewish problem: how they were to control, to curb, the intellectual independence, the artistic creativity, the financial ingenuity and resourcefulness of the Jews in Germany and the rest of Europe. Hitler's solution, the so,-called ""final solution", was really very simple, the most simple and final of all: it was to eliminate the Jews completely from any possible participation in the national life of that Germany which the Jews had loved so much and to which they had made so many unforgettable contributions- to send them to concentration camps and then to extermination ovens to exterminate them. When there were no longer any Jews, then there would be no Jewish problem. It was as simple as that. In the Transkei we see a clever Variation bfithat .solution.._ The .. black South Africans are a problem to the apartheid regime in Pretoria. Exterminate them? No. That would be a solution, a final solution"', but one from which even the most cynical r6gime would recoil, which the civilized world could now condemn, and which, in fact, would be physically impossible to carry out. And so we are instead presented with an ingenious alternative. Why exterminate the black citizens of South Africa? After all, the white South Africans need their cheap slave-labour. Much better instead to strip them of their civil and human rights; to exterminate them politically by depriving them of their citizenship; to reduce them to non-citizens, nonpersons for they must, after all, work to live, and they must work in the white-dominated and -controlled industries, agro-business, commerce, and households of South Africa in order to survive. No Government in the history of the world has disenfranchised so many of its citizens at one stroke, stripping them of all their rights in their own country. That is what the Transkei experiment is all about. Those of us who represent peoples and countries that fought hard and long for independence probably find it hard to believe that the people of the Transkei do not want independence. It is not that they identify themselves with their rulers. It is not that they hesitate to undertake the responsibilities of independence. This is not a colonial situation at all. The Xhosas of the Transkei have not won a country of their own. They have lost the one they had. I daresay that the overwhelming majority, if not indeed all, of the countries we represent here came into being and pro:laimed their independence by the will of the people. That will may have been expressed in various ways: by historical allegiances to dynasties embodying the nation, by the assertion and recognition of national identity when it reached maturity, or by violent revolution against foreign rule. But almost always our nations were born of the people. Not Even Asked What we are faced with now is something unique, something strange; something unprecedented. The inhabitants of the Transkei and their fellow Xhosas in South Africa did not proclaim their right to be free and independent. They were not even asked if they wanted to be free and independent. And if they had been asked, they would have, in all probability, said no. But in fact they were never asked. The issue was never submitted to a free referendum, How that would have gone is shown by the refusal of six of the other eight bantustans to accept independence.
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