Die Kwazulu‐Natal Indaba: ‘n Oorsig van die Werksaamhede

Abstract

This article tries to give an synoptic view of the origins, the procedures and results of the KwaZulu‐Natal Indaba. By tracing and analysing both the submissions presented and the tactics used in promoting them it demonstrates that the proposals arrived at were, in a sense, inevitable. Given the ideological spectrum of the participants and the basic points of departure the result could only be an amalgam of the liberal and the corporate approaches that dominated all discussions. The final document thus strongly reflected the consociational and federal elements that such a compromise must of necessity embody. Individual and group, according this compromise, complement rather than confront one another.