Land of fun, sun, and Sol Kerzner, but something was wrong in the state of Bophuthatswana. // Bophuthatswana was the National Party's shining example to people of the world that Verwoerd's dream of separate development could work. Established in 1972 this patchwork of seven bits of land was ruled for eighteen years by Lucas Mangope. With the aid of South Africa's military establishment, the world's richest platinum mine and a set of casinos he dictated the fortunes of over two million people. As the Truth Commission found out this week it was not a happy homeland.
