WI : No bantustans

What would be the consequences with South Africa, still abiding by an apartheid policy (altough, for the sake of the conversation, it could be softened, hardened, shortened, etc.), not enacting a policy of "self-governing" or "independent" homelands?

If possible, local, regional and international consequences of such a change.
 
Could you elaborate on how it would cause more early and violent riots?

I'd like to have opinions about what it would change, for exemple, for the apartheid-supported black elite in these homelands and the consequences.

Or, what it would change in political labelling : Israel is regularly blamed to pull a bantustan over Gaza and Palestine. Will the reaction on Israeli-Palestinian conflict be different without bantustans, as in the absence of a precedent (or percieved precedent) cause a similar, softer, harsher, more divided, etc. label/accusation?
 
Well if we get the timing right perhaps one affect could well be that there is greater resistance to the Civil Right's movement if non-White riots get worse from the get go pretty much. So carrying on with that one possibility that could stem with that is that black emancipation (I have no idea what to call it) is seen as a communistic idea and possibly evolving to include multiculturalism in general. So Rhodesia has the possibility to still be Rhodesia as these fears spread north on the continent. Though somewhat far-fetched, I wouldn't be surprised if this develops within the western political mentality or at the very least more accepted. Though from my limited knowledge, a Race War is very likely to break out at some point. Either way whatever would happen depending on the developments would radically change the present day.
 
Take Henrik Verwoerd out of the picture. 'Grand' apartheid - which was the principle of giving each of the black ethnic groups their own 'homeland' - was his idea. Many in the National Party were actually opposed to the homelands, at the time.

Perhaps have him stay in Europe where he did his doctorate (I think), or have some other butterfly stop him from ever getting into politics.

No Verwoerd probably has all sorts of other butterflies for South Africa at that stage too, never mind the existence of no homelands.
 

Czar Kaizer

Banned
The Bantustans were basically the NP's way of trying to make their racial policies more acceptable to the international community(which no one bought) before the bantustans the NP's ideology was based on pure racial segregation, in that blacks should be kept out of white society(except for labour) at all costs and that the white race was superior to non whites. Without the Bantustans sanctions are imposed on South Africa a lot earlier since the apartheid ideology is not simply based on the notion that blacks belong somewhere else but also that they are racially inferior, this is unacceptable in a post holacaust world so even the US and Britian will turn away from them much earlier.
 
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