South African elections in the 1980s

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It's peculiar because this information must surely exist? Laws must surely have been passed that deliminated boundaries, and yet...

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Part of the issue is the desire to memory-hole the past, I suppose. For different reasons: everything to do with the Ancien Regime is still a cause of real hot fury for the majority, while for the minority it's all a bit of an embarrassment and Have We Not Moved On Now? In the future there will certainly be more interest in things like this - when there's domestic academic interest in how the National Party regime functioned in practice: historical questions like that - but we are not yet at that stage.

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Very much a political force caught ought of its time and not sure what to do.

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Link has been shared by icc on another forum (thanks!) and is here: https://ur.booksc.eu/book/36224960/3b9a97

Maps are featured on pages 60 and 61 of the attached pdf.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There was a realistic chance of something like that which followed the roughly contemporaneous breakup of Yugoslavia occurring. People forget, but the government had essentially lost control of large parts of the country by the late 1980s.