任何一种研究专题都不能没有政治含义,而不论这一研究专题具有多么强的学术性。在南非更是如此。不断加剧的紧张局势使我们再也不能对南非种族隔离问题研究采取不偏不的态度了。仅用民族学、经济学或政治学去解释种族隔离问题是完全不对的。种族隔离问题具有特殊的政治性质。没有这种政治性质,种族隔离问题也就不复存在了。虽然研究种族隔离问题的学者们在事业中团结一致,但他们(大多是欧洲血统的学者和来自南非的非洲知识分子)对种族隔离问题的看法却不尽相同。因为来自南非的非洲知识分子处于欧洲学者所没有经历过的生活方式和压迫之中。由于南非政权将种族问题视为一切社 Any kind of research topic can not have no political meaning, no matter how strong the research topic is academic. This is even more so in South Africa. The escalating tensions prevented us from ever taking an indifferent approach to the issue of apartheid in South Africa. It is totally wrong to explain the problem of apartheid solely with ethnology, economics or political science. The issue of apartheid has a special political character. Without this political nature, the problem of apartheid ceased to exist. Although scholars working on apartheid are united in their careers, they (mostly scholars of European origin and African intellectuals from South Africa) have different views on apartheid. Because African intellectuals from South Africa are in a lifestyle and oppression not experienced by European scholars. Due to the South African regime’s view of race as a community