ABSTRACT

This article analyses a number of academic and journalistic proposals on the negotiated partition of South Africa coming from different schools of thought, from within South Africa and abroad, from the 1920s up to the late 1980s. These proposals of dividing South Africa into a ‘predominantly black’ and a ‘predominantly white’ state were presented by their authors as an alternative to apartheid and seen as a way out of the impasse created by the unwillingness of the National Party to accept the one man, one vote principle for a unitary state. The article examines how the proposals gradually foresaw giving the economically most relevant parts of the country to the ‘predominantly black state’. The article argues that this debate also has to be seen in the context of the Cold War where the partition of countries had been a means to pacify divided societies, at least temporarily.

摘要

本文分析了从 1920 年代到 1980 年代后期，来自南非国内和国外不同思想流派的一些关于南非谈判分割的学术和新闻提案。这些将南非划分为“以黑人为主”和“以白人为主”的国家的提议被他们的作者提出作为种族隔离的替代方案，并被视为摆脱由于国家党不愿意接受种族隔离而造成的僵局的出路男人，单一制国家的一票原则。这篇文章探讨了这些提案如何逐渐预见到将该国经济上最相关的地区交给“以黑人为主的国家”。