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BiographySantu Mofokeng
Born in 1956, Mofokeng grew up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial experiences with…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… international community overtly refused to recognise the homelands policy and when Lesotho followed suit. South …
Liberation
… informal rights in the communal areas (the former reserves/homelands) are less developed. The only communal land tenure … with state support. In relation to…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… promise of ‘future’ reform for Blacks confined to the ‘ homelands ’. This reform is largely criticised by … when all Black South Africans were designated …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… annihilating both peoples. The survivors lost their homelands, their cattle and their freedom. They became …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… of different ethnic groups located in different rural homelands . They were peasants or self-providing groups and …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… of Rights took effect on 27 April 1994. The system of “homelands” for the Black population was abolished. With the …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… people (who comprised the vast majority) to form their 'homelands'. This Act also got rid of 'black spots' inside …
Conflict among civic organisations
… regulate the movement, residence of African people outside homelands and to increase the powers of African municipal …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… where they were born. They had no rights outside these homelands. In 1994, twenty-six parties negotiated and adopted … regional bodies representing black…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… of Maria's school. The Transkei was the first of the black homelands to become indepenÂdent. The cornerstone of the … development was the acceptance of…
PlaceNdabeni
… ‘rural homes’ in the Transkei - the first of the four homelands to be granted independence in 1976. …
PlaceDundonald, East Mpumalanga
… KaNgwane was dissolved in 1994 along with the other nine homelands, Dundonald residents remain isolated to this day. …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… unit has its own legislature, based on the so-called homelands. The homelands are economically non-viable. Their legislatures are … rural areas, and those in…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… homeland parties or military councils representing all the homelands except KwaZulu were included. KwaZulu was … body, the reincorporation of the independent…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
Butterworth is situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast (the former Transkei - a black…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… [8] Ibid. [9] Author Unknown, “The Homelands”, South African History Online, (Uploaded: 17 April … 2020), Available at: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article…
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
Botshabelo, which means 'place of refuge', is the largest Township in the Free State, after Soweto which is the largest in the South Africa. Botshabelo and…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… landmass allotted to the African people and carved into homelands. Land allotment per rural family has declined in … for the maintenance of the unemployable,…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… at Winterveld on 26 March 1986 because, according to the homelands minister of Foreign Affairs '. its recommendations …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… Section Six of the Terrorism Act. 26 March, The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act No. 26 comes into force. It strips … African citizenship and makes them…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… in urban areas that were linked to authorities in the homelands. The secret activity by Sisulu and Nokwe was …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… boycott also spread to universities, rural areas and the' homelands. Indian schools in Pretoria and Durban joined the …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… South Africa, whereby more autonomy could be provided to homelands and power could remain in the hands of the White …
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… and created specific areas (which came to be known as 'homelands') within which whites were not allowed to buy land … (1914: 1). Africans who had purchased…
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic's office
… initiative. The Black states, including the independent 'homelands' rejected the idea, but the SA government was …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of … February, In a joint statement the leaders of…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… scars of being bundled into Bantustans or so-called homelands. According to the Promotion of Bantu … so-called homeland would be established. Through the…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… South Africa, recognizing as de facto entities the “homelands” whose creation by the apartheid government the … What is Bishop Tutu doing here? He doesn’t…