ABSTRACT
The way history is evolving in the southern African subcontinent—the newest of the world's flashpoints—a head-on, cataclysmic collision seems inevitable between the fast-expanding extremes of white and black nationalism from the Zambezi River in the north to the Cape Peninsula in the south. No firm label such as "apartheid" of "majority rule" has yet been coined for it, but it does have a tag, albeit a semantically awkward one: ethnicity. In fact, ethnicity is certainly not discriminatory in the sense of denying or depriving people on the basis of their color. Ethnicity also recognizes the differences, but it seeks only to define or distinguish people—not to separate them-by culture, tradition, and other ethnic characteristics that create the differences in their ways of life and aspirations. The interpretation of ethnicity was a prime cause of the collapse. The United Party wants ethnic power sharing at all levels of government.
