This is the twenty-fourth in Hoernle Memorial Lectures delivered by Philip Mayer in which he discusses the social structures under which South Africans live in, specifically in the Eastern Cape in relation to those living in the Bantustans or homelands. He describes the feelings of those Black citizens who live in the Bantustans and raises the question of independence and freedom and the relations between the government of the Republic and the Bantustan.
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Urban Africans and the Bantustans

- Origin date
- 13 January 1972
- Updated
- 26 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Urban Africans and the Bantustans. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0111964
South African History Online (2016) 'Urban Africans and the Bantustans', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0111964 (Accessed: 25 July 2026).
South African History Online, Urban Africans and the Bantustans [website], https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0111964, (accessed 25 July 2026).
"Urban Africans and the Bantustans." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0111964. Accessed 25 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Urban Africans and the Bantustans." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0111964.
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