Class, conflict and ideology among the petty bougeoisie in the homelands: Inkatha : a study

Abstract

The Inkatha movement has received a great deal of publicity over the few years since, its revival, and especially with the recent formation of an alliance between the ("Coloured") Labour Party, Inkatha, and the ("Indian") Reform Party. This paper was done to suggest a possible approach, for discussion, to the analysis of current political, ideological, and economic developments in the reserve/"homeland" regions of the South African social formation. More specifically, the paper hopes to provide information that could be relevant to an analysis of some developments in the KwaZulu region. An elaboration of these hints at an approach along with integration of factors relating to the stage of capitalism dominant in the social formation and class struggle would have made this a more satisfactory paper for discussion.