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eventREF E-0012856Revised

7 February 1990

Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei

Holimisa

Updated
7 Feb 2022
Holimisa

The Transkei leader, Gen. Bantu Holomisa, announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), the Marxist Front, COSATU and the Azanian Liberation Movement. The unbanning allowed all political organisations to resume their political activities in Transkei. In the same speech Holomisa announced the release of Ndibulele Ndzamela, Phumzile Mayaphi, Teko Mokhou, Tandisile Jada, Mcebisi Waqu and Sindiso Sigcu, all of them political prisoners.

How we know this

  1. 01South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 522.

Last updated · 7 Feb 2022

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012856

South African History Online (2011) 'Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012856 (Accessed: 27 October 2026).

South African History Online, Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012856, (accessed 27 October 2026).

"Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012856. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012856.

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