At a 1953 meeting in Lusikisiki, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] betterment and the Bantu Authorities (BA) were rejected in the presence of the Paramount Chief (PC). Govan Mbeki writes in his book, The Peasants Revolt, that‘one man by the name of Mngqingo (Pikani) turned his backside to Botha Sigcau, a sign of no-confidence.
Nikisi Feni and Mabaso Siqila were said to be the leaders of ‘recalcitrant Natives’ in Xengxe Location, near King William’s Town, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape].
Ntlabati Jojo had been deposed of his status as headman in the late 1920s though by the 1940s, he was considered to be effectively the chief of a few locations. He is said to have led resistance to state measures, and surrendered ‘with twenty-one others. All but one were tried and convicted that same day.’
The Native Affairs Department accused Jojo of displacing his older brother Gawulibaso Kaiser Jojo as chief after sections of the community opposed ‘rehabilitation measures’ introduced in 1949 by the government, which were supported by Chief Gawulibaso.
Phuti Matlala was banished on 7 March 1951 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]to Verdwaal Farm, Lichtenburg District in Western Transvaal (now in the North West Province) due to his ‘presence being inimical to the peace’.
The order was withdrawn on 9 February 1966 after Matlala spent 15 years in banishment.
Boy Seopa was 18 years old when he was banished on 21 July 1953 from his original residence at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] to Tabaans Location (Louis Trichardt [Makhado]), Sibasa District, [Tshivhase], Northern Transvaalwith his mother, Maphuti Seopa. He left his place of banishment to work in Johannesburg, noting that, ‘No one gave me permission to leave Davhana to work in Johannesburg.
The documentation related to the banishment of Gubuzela Ngubane provides an account of the historical process by which the Ntanzi community came in the 19th century to find ‘refuge with the Bomvu tribe, which inhabited the Umvoti Valley, Greytown District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal].’
Tensions between the Ntanzi and Bomvu communities developed in the 1940s, allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, ‘was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, the Acting Chief of the Bomvu tribe.’
Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] in 1952 and taken to a police van, which already held other compatriots.
Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti was born in 1924 in the Kwalera district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to look for work, and the family moved to Tsolo Location on the East Bank in East London.
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew as the result of the wine making industry, tannery and fruit production. The family of Dorothy was directly associated with the introduction of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) in South Africa.
Proclamation No. 84 of 1951 declared, without providing reasons, the removal of the entire community from Area No. 54, Tenbosch Farm No.234, Barberton District, Eastern Transvaal, [now Mpumalanga Province].
They were to be relocated on Native Trust land elsewhere in the Barberton district. Several meetings were held from 1951 to 1953, at which the community repeatedly refused to vacate the land. They were informed that water supplies, adequate residential sites, arable land, funds to build schools and a clinic and travel arrangements for their stock would be made available.