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Rocky Malebane-Metsing
Rocky Malebane-Metsing was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his schooling, Malebane…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… this Act by setting up Black ethnic governments known as ?Homelands?. The government used this Act to push Black people out of urban areas to stay in these…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… the 1994 elections, Bophuthatswana, together with other homelands, was incorporated to form part of South Africa’s …
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… The biggest campaign for the year ended up focusing on the homelands and on homeland authorities, by calling for …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… the areas northwest and south of Pietersburg were declared homelands for the North Sotho. Known after 1962 as Lebowa, … to buy land from White farmers and…
ArticleProvincial histories
… Union in 1910 after its four provinces were united. Later ‘homelands’ were created for black people to be sent to live …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… to the reserves that were then re-constituted as ethnic 'homelands' by the apartheid regime. The process of … from Whites in the countryside. The creation of…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… Customs Duties'. Coming to the question of the so-called Homelands, as early as 1849 Earl Grey agreed that it would be … be a vast labour farm for white…
PlaceQuaqua
… a part of South Africa in 1994, along with the other nine Homelands. The QwaqQwa Nature Area has been incorporated into …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… as a part of the overall apartheid system including ‘homelands’, urban restrictions, pass laws and job … was also made compulsory. Because of the government…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… bodies, and indeed, new ‘countries’, the tribal homelands. Though Biko was killed before his thirty first … against Apartheid institutions, particularly the…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… the other Xhosa homeland. Ciskei and all of the other homelands were reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… to Ciskei between 1970 and 1982. The establishment of the homelands also went hand in hand with a stricter enforcement …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… out of the work places demanding wage increases. The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act strips blacks of their South … incorporated into the Johannesburg…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac…
ArticleNdebele
… lived in urban centres throughout South Africa and in homelands other than KwaNdebele through the 1980s. During the … These disputes were overridden by the…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… For a time, APDUSA succeeded in recruiting workers in the homelands but lacking an adequate social base, and losing its …
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 14 April 1925. His parents, Carl August and Elsie May Eglin were…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
Johannes Modise, or Joe, as he is known to family, friends and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… also cases of protest against the homeland system in other homelands, but again the UDF again was not actively involved. …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Bophututswana: homeland politics The South African Homelands The history of Rustenburg is, because of the nature …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… at the present time. All the so-called 'independent' homelands have their own versions of the ISA, which are … for this purpose includes the ISA (and its…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… soon afterwards. Click here for more information about homelands ... …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… which provided for the establishment of 10 self-governing homelands or Bantustans. The Homelands were areas whereby Africans, who were denied South …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… workers who moved to Cape Town from rural Transkei or the homelands in the Eastern Cape Province. The township also … area for Cape Town at the time…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… by those who were appointed functionaries of the various homelands. When SASO’s Themba Sono suggested at a conference … SASO expelled him and took a strong…
PlaceTranskei
… leadership. In 1976 Transkei became the first of the four homelands to be granted independence. Supported by the South … dispensation in South Africa, the…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… this Act by setting up Black ethnic governments known as “Homelands”. The government used this Act to push Black people out of urban areas to stay in these…