http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1866449234

Mandela's kinsmen : nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan

Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost ""tribal"" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei, political leaders, such as Mandela, used regionally rooted clan, schooling and professional connections to vault to leadership; they crafted expansive nationalisms woven from these ""kin"" identities. But from 1963 the apartheid government turned South Africa's chieftaincies into self-governing, tri.

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