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The Libertarian Legacy of Leon Lowe
The Bontou stand system was a way to strip black South Africans of their citizenship and re code them as being the citizens of these artificially created ethnically black homelands, which would make you now not a South African. So from the outside, this was just dismissed as like kind of ideological kind of eyewash from the South African state. But the South Africans themselves were completely serious, right? They they each of these homelands had a flag, they had their own airlines in some cases, they had its own stamps. They were treated as if they were independent nations. And so this was according to South Africa, their act of decolonizing, they were giving the
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