AWG Champion, Zulu Nationalism and `Separate Development' in South Africa, 1965 -1975

Abstract

This is a historical study of AWG Champion, the former leader of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) and provincial President of the African National Congress, in the politics of Zululand and Natal from 1965 to 1975. The study examines the introduction of the Zulu homeland and how different political forces in that region of South Africa responded to the idea of a Zulu homeland during the period under review. It also deals with Champion's political alienation from the ANC.

This dissertation is also a study of the development of Zulu ethnic nationalism within the structures of apartheid or separate development, the homelands.

Issues running throughout the study are the questions of how and why Champion tried and failed to manipulate `separate development' in order to build a Zulu ethnic political base.