The Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly was dissolved. Together with the Ingwavuma district, KaNgwane was placed under the direct control of the Department of Cooperation and Development. This was despite the opposition of the great majority of the Legislative Assembly. Five months later, the South African government conceded another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer the KaNgwane 'homeland' to Swaziland. On 25 November, the Minister of Development and Cooperation, Dr. Piet Koornhof announced the withdrawal of a proclamation dissolving the Legislative Assembly of KaNgwane issued in June 1981. Kangwane was created in 1977 as AmaSwazi, and was to be transferred to Swaziland. Later the attempt to transfer it to Swaziland failed after popular protest of 1982, leading its dissolution. The homeland was recreated and renamed Kangwane in 1984 and was re-incorporated into the Republic of South Africa on 27 April 1994. It now forms part of Mpumalanga province.

How we know this

01O’Malley, P. ‘1982’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 22 May 2013)
02South African History Online, ‘SA government fails to integrate KaNgwane into Swaziland’, [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za (Accessed: 22 May 2013)
03Berry, B. (2007), ‘KaNgwane (South African homeland)’, from CRW Flags, [online], available at www.crwflags.com (Accessed: 22 May 2013)

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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