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Administering the KwaZulu Bantustan - Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity By Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xxi + 365. $120.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781793631268); $45.00, e-book, (ISBN: 9781793631275).

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Bantu Authorities: Apartheid's System of Race and Ethnicity By Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. xxi + 365. $120.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781793631268); $45.00, e-book, (ISBN: 9781793631275).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Laura Phillips
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Southern AfricaSouth Africaapartheidcolonial administrationethnicitychieftaincy
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The Journal of African History , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 153 - 155
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