Apartheid may be over, but the Bantustans live on and the ANC is milking this for all it’s worth. Ed Stoddard reviews ‘Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles’, a stimulating collection of 12 essays. Apartheid may be over, but the Bantusta.
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