29 April 1973
Vorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves,

- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019

How we know this
- 01O’Malley, P. ‘1973’, from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], Available at www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 25 April 2014)
- 02South African History Online (SAHO), ‘Prime Minister Vorster completes a tour of African homelands in the Northern Transvaal during which he hold talks with leaders’, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 25 April 2014]
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2013, April 26). Vorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves,. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095548
South African History Online (2013) 'Vorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves,', South African History Online, 26 April. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095548 (Accessed: 14 November 2026).
South African History Online, Vorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves, [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095548, (accessed 14 November 2026).
"Vorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves,." South African History Online, 26 Apr. 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095548. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.
South African History Online. "Vorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves,." South African History Online. April 26, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095548.
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