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PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… under South Africa’s, new Democratic Constitution the Homelands were dismantled and South Africa consolidated into … (2013). Flags of the World: KwaZulu…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… ‘nations [2] ; hence the formation of the ‘self-governing’ Homelands . The ‘nations’ which are referred to in the ‘four …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the Cape Province, this led to the establishment of homelands and dissolution of the NRC. In this feature we have …
EventGovernment tables the third Constitution of the Republic of South Africa before the House of Assembly
… African people, on grounds that they were citizens of homelands. Consequently, they had no rights outside of their homelands. The Constitution also declaredP…
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic’s office
… initiative. The Black states, including the independent 'homelands' rejected the idea, but the SA government was …
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… in it. And we cannot accept a ‘solution’ which says yes to homelands, the Group Areas Act, to laws which make us believe …
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
… In 1951 the first stage of the policy of Bantustan or Homelands, was implemented. Black Local Authorities were set …
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana's incorporation following major unrest
On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed a…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and … aspects of the apartheid system,…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… were considered to be ‘illegal’ were repatriated to their homelands in the Eastern Cape Province. By 1986, some 8300 …
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… boycotts spread to universities, rural areas and the homelands. Police were on high alert in Durban and Port …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… people would be difficult to control in cities than in Homelands . For Whites, apartheid would then re-affirm white … people would be difficult to control in…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… The setting up of the interim government The future of the homelands Time period for the implementation of the changes …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… was normally spontaneous, that broke out in townships and homelands across the country. Although the UDF did not …
PlaceKaNyamazane Township, Mpumalanga
KaNyamazane, previously known as Lekazi, was established as a labour reserve, and was then zoned to fall within the Kangwane homeland. The first primary school…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… were expanded over time to become the Bantustans or Homelands under the Apartheid government. It is important to …
PlaceEmalahleni Municipality, Mpumalanga
… same time the Group Areas Act and associated Legislation. Homelands experienced increased rural population densities, …
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… racial segregating policies, such as the formation of the ‘homelands’ in 1936 which limited where Africans could live … workers. These workers lived with…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… to name but a few – remain untouched and unchanged. The homelands policy, which is surely the most immoral and … the words of the proposals by the President…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… of the Transkei. These are the two most populous of the homelands. Buthelezi, who has been a particularly outspoken … the National Party was to treat the…
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… He served as Chief Minister of Gazankulu (one of the 8 homelands) for 24 years, until his death on 23 March 1993. …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… still be less than those enjoyed by the non-independent homelands. The IFP rejected the proposal as utter hypocrisy …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Bophuthatswana and other homelands which became independent. At around the same time, …
EventAgreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
The Ciskei government under the military ruler Brig. Oupa Gqozo signed an agreement with the South African government, represented by Foreign Minister Roelof …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. The SADF displayed a …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… groups to break away from South Africa and form their own homelands . Some scholars have argued that de Klerk narrowly …
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… the other, the 4 'independent' and the 6 'self-governing' homelands melted away, capitulated or were deposed in the … with which we will have to grapple for…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… was introduced under colonialism and later reinforced as homelands under apartheid left a legacy of poverty and … being available to the black majority in…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… and created specific areas (which came to be known as 'homelands') within which whites were not allowed to buy land … them on plots rented or purchased in…
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by the National…