UBC, noun

Forms:
Also U.B.C.
Origin:
Initial letters of Urban Bantu Council.
historical
An elected body responsible, during the apartheid era, for the administration of an urban Black township. See also Useless Boys’ Club.
Note:
Replaced by community councils (see community council).
[1961 Act 79 in Stat. of Republic of S. Afr.Urban Bantu Councils Act.]
1968 Drum Sept. 25After all the promises of what U.B.C. would mean to us, what has it actually meant? Has it given Soweto residents some form of self-rule..?
1970 T.W. Khambule in Post 28 June 11The UBC has no powers of any kind, there is nothing they can achieve in any direction because they have no form of autonomy.
1971 Drum May 51The UBC has been called a bunch of emasculated bulls.
1976 Weekend World 12 Sept. 9Since the township unrest more and more people have been calling the UBC a body of ‘sell-outs’...Allegations were made against certain UBC members in a civic action.
1978 Survey of Race Rel. (S.A.I.R.R.) 402A statement issued by students said that since its inception the UBC had achieved nothing for the people of Soweto...Student leaders visited individual UBC members urging them to resign.
1982 Grahamstown Voice Sept. 2‘The government is using us as stooges’, said Mr Z—, who was on the old UBC, is on the present Council, and intends standing in the next elections.
An elected body responsible, during the apartheid era, for the administration of an urban Black township.
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