M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announced that he will not stand for re-election and will resign as Minister in November 1977. At the time Botha was at the centre of the land dispute between the apartheid government and the Independent Homeland of Transkei, under the leadership of Chief K.D. Matanzima. Transkei demanded areas the apartheid government had designated as “white” to be part of the homeland.
eventREF E-0093720Revised
3 October 1977
Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01nelsonmandela, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 27 September 2012]
- 02South African History Online, ‘The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that a thorough inquiry into Transkei land claims has been made', [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 27 September 2012]
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, September 26). Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093720
South African History Online (2012) 'Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.', South African History Online, 26 September. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093720 (Accessed: 7 November 2026).
South African History Online, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093720, (accessed 7 November 2026).
"Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.." South African History Online, 26 Sept. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093720. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.
South African History Online. "Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.." South African History Online. September 26, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093720.
Also on 3 October
- 1685The Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
- 1844Sir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
- 1935WW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
- 1948 African leaders issue a call for African unity
- 1973Prime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
- 1978Magistrate L.A Coetzee rules that no one is to blame for the prison death of Lungile Tabalaza
- 1980NRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
- 1989US opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
Search events by date
This day in history
What happened on your birthday?
SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →