Like thousands of desperate black families, hers simply walked away from the Bantustan, looking for some improvement in their lives.

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The syntax of the reservation is uncertain, but it is clear that such a state will be a sort of Palestinian bantustan, a farcical territory at the mercy of the Israeli puppeteers with only the power to issue its own pretty stamps.

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After leaving the Bantustan, they had lived on a succession of illegal sites squatters' camps some of which they had been forced to abandon, some of which they had left of their own volition, either in desperation or in the false hope of finding something better.

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