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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 …
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 missionaries
… Botha Sigcau, the Paramount Chief of Eastern Pondoland, Transkei in 1939-1976, promised labour recruiters that he …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Aspects of South African Beadwork, particularly of the Transkei Tribes . Article in Africana Curiosities. Edited …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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. …
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, …
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…
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 …
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…