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<text>
<title>
'Surge' In Xhosa Nationalism in South Africa
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<article>
<hdr>
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, May 21, 1991
South Africa: Report Finds 'Surge' in Xhosa Nationalism
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<body>
<p>[Report by Patrick Bulger: "Xhosa Nationalism 'Is Rising'".
Johannesburg THE STAR in English 21 May 91 p 4]
</p>
<p> [Text] A surge in Xhosa nationalism was further complicating
attempts to bring peace to Reef townships, the Independent
Board of Inquiry into Informal Repression said yesterday.
</p>
<p> The board is made up of prominent human rights lawyers and
clerics. Its researchers say Xhosa nationalism manifests itself
in the singing of Xhosa songs in praise of Transkei and
Pondoland. In an area on the East Rand a squatter camp has been
named after Transkei's military ruler Bantu Holomisa.
</p>
<p> The report is the first public acknowledgement from a non-
partisan, credible quarter that Zulu chauvinism is fuelling a
similar reaction among Xhosas. Researchers say Xhosas are
adamant the ANC [African National Congress] is a Xhosa
organisation and that there is no place for Zulu leaders in it.
The researchers attribute the rise in Xhosa nationalism to an
influx of rural Transkeians.
</p>
<p> ANC leader Chris Hani was recently drowned out by squatters
singing tribal songs at katlehong while he tried to put the
Zulu contribution to the ANC's history in perspective. He was
speaking after 15 squatters were killed when Xhosa-speaking
residents of Holomisa squatter camp attacked squatters at
neighbouring Mandela camp because they had heard
Inkatha-supporting Zulus were living there.
</p>
<p> The Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case) claimed
yesterday that Inkatha had been reported to be responsible for
10 times more acts of aggression during Reef township violence
than the ANC.
</p>
<p> A Case report said the media and monitoring organisation
blamed Inkatha for 66 percent of 146 incidents between July
last year and this month, and the ANC for 6 percent.
</p>
<p> The report also claimed the reported use of AK-47s was
restricted to Inkatha: President Mangosuthu Buthelezi said Case
had "highly politicised partisan reputation," and accused it of
distorted analysis.
</p>
<p> The ANC said the report's finding that traditional weapons
were used in 31 of 82 incidents attributed to Inkatha explained
why the ANC had called for a prohibition on the carrying of
traditional weapons.
</p>
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</article>
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