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To: TimF who wrote (200292)	8/30/2006 2:37:59 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Multi-state solutions were in fact not only discussed but actually put in practice in South Africa. I forget the total number of Bantustans, but on the order of a dozen or so. It failed, because the whites wanted the entire matrix of S. Africa for themselves, with blacks shunted off here and there. In Rhodesia, the whites went from 270K to something like 10K now, so effectively total migration out. That was the final solution. In South Africa, the story is not over yet, so I'm not sure what it will look like in 50 years. There are white groups who continue to argue for a white tribal state (Africaans really, not English white), while some black tribes also might embrace more independence (for example Zulu's have been underdogs to Xhosa since independence). Given Lesotho and Swaziland, I'm not sure more splintering can be ruled out.