What was Radio Bantu?
L.M: Radio Bantu. Well, all radio was state-owned radio and was divided into different stations, and they were all language based. And so Radio Bantu was the African language section of the state-owned radio corporation. Then within Radio Bantu, there was Radio Zulu, Radio Pedi, etc. etc. etc. B.E: Why did the state see an advantage in promoting all these language divisions? L.M: With a policy of divide-and-rule, the idea was to place a premium on ethnic purity and ethnic origins. There was this forced removal policy. The state identified who could belong in which area, and this of course had enormous implications for everybody. If the state identified you as Zulu, that determined your home, irrespective of whether you had grown up in Soweto, or where you had grown up. Your home was KwaZulu. And that would determine where you could work, where you could have land, and what kind of resources were available to you. The other point I wanted to make is that in order to get promotion on the
