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EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… Buthelezi of Kwa Zulu met President Kaizer Matanzima of Transkei in Tongaat, north of Durban, where they declared …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… in order to ensure exclusive casino rights in the Transkei Province. On 17 January 1989, after two years of …
ArticleThe missionaries
… Botha Sigcau, the Paramount Chief of Eastern Pondoland, Transkei in 1939-1976, promised labour recruiters that he …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… 18 July, the day Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo, Transkei, the Allies, strengthened by American …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Aspects of South African Beadwork, particularly of the Transkei Tribes . Article in Africana Curiosities. Edited …
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 in the Transkei, as the 2nd of five children of Minah and Gqongo …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… worker 16 years younger than him, from Bizana in the Transkei, Eastern Cape. In March 1961, Justice Rumpff found … on condition that he recognized the…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… university libraries and advantage was taken of the Transkei’s bogus independence by directly mailing copies to …
EventThe participants at the multi-party forum negotiations agreed on both new structures of the police and defence force
… which would comprise the old SADF, defence forces from Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei (TBVC states), and …
EventHolomisa on corruption
… Sol Kerzner. In May 1996, Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of Transkei and Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… the many migrant workers who moved to Cape Town from rural Transkei or the homelands in the Eastern Cape Province. The … the only Black residential area for…
EventChris Hani is born
… village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the sixth of seven children of Gilbert and …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… the reincorporation of all the homelands, including the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei. At a later news …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… career as ambassador to the United Kingdom and later Transkei before he retired in 1986. …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… Task Group which examined the future of the TBVC States—Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei. Paul’s …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… were from Cala in Xalanga district of Tembuland in the Transkei. Tariq’s maternal great-grandfather William Haddon …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… Tambo, passed the JC examination with a first class. The Transkei Bhunga (Assembly of Chiefs) awarded him a five-year …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… legislation in the four nominally independent Bantustans, Transkei, Bopthuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei was just one of a …
EventNqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
… Chief K.D. Matanzima in order to get him to agree to Transkei 'independence'. … ‘Accommodation South Africa: Port St Johns Transkei’ from Port St Johns…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… The residents here, were originally from the Ciskei and Transkei homelands (Bantustans). The removals occurred on 25 …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… colonial rule which were finally broken in the southern Transkei during the 1850s as a result of the cattle killing …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… hours, speakers eulogised Biko. The Reverend Xundu, the Transkei Anglican priest, who presided over the funeral, …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… escape. Woods was born at Hobeni, in the Mbashe area of Transkei in the Eastern Cape in 1933. While in he was in …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… was born on 21 October 1918 at Xolobeni, Tsomo in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). ). She and her husband Walter …
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… in different organisations from organising peasants in the Transkei to organising teachers and workers in the urban centres. His extensive work among…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… race separation by establishing the first Bantustan in the Transkei - with the aid of emergency police regulations; … police Before and during the two-year …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During the 1940s, he …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… 7 pm on 29 April in Venda, Gazankulu, Lebowa, KwaZulu, Transkei and Ciskei. The African National Congress(ANC) under …
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… dead by 2 gunmen. Gaga, Nengeni / Negeni, 19 1965/5/7 Transkei Natural causes 1984 28 June Lubango, Angola … (17) All youths Killed by vigilantes. 24…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… communities in what is to become the regions of the Transkei and Natal, and also with seSotho speakers in the … making are established such as the Ciskei and…