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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. So you would not have any citizenship rights, not that you had any anyway, but that wouldn't even be on the horizon. The attempts by the black workers within that homeland to organize, which were incessant in the face of life threatening danger, those efforts were being stamped out with murderous violence. And so this was, according to South Africa, their act of decolonizing, they were giving the blacks their own countries, and they stopped bothering us about being a racist country.