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Apartheid power in crisis
… a high level of rejection amongst the black community of homelands and black municipal councils, which is generating a … Act was introduced in 1970 to create…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… apartheid in buildings located in previous South African homelands. His study aims to generate – through photographic …
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… were wrong. The parcelling of our country into tribal homelands and reservoirs of cheap labour was wrong. So much …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… or permits from the women who came all the way from the homelands (predominantly Ciskei and Transkei ) to visit their …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… this myth as justification for its construction of the homelands (Bantustans) . Although the homelands housed 70% of the population, they comprised only …
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… communities were located in all four provinces and the homelands. A police witness said to the Cillie Commission … and excision. 9 832 persons were removed…
PlaceHobeni
Hobeni is a Village in Mbhashe Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Mbhashe Municipality is a remote outpost of the Eastern…
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… human rights and forcing them to live in segregated homelands without basic infrastructure such as electricity, …
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… under South Africa’s, new Democratic Constitution the Homelands were dismantled and South Africa consolidated into …
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of the…
Pedi
… of life under apartheid, as population increases in homelands or reserves, and land degradation, meant that men …
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…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… Police (SAP), the South African Defence Force (SADF), homelands police and armies, municipal and council police and … apartheid power was vested: 1…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most dynamic literary…
Press Statement concerning the Five-Year Plan presented by F.W. De Klerk to the National Party Conference by O. R. Tambo, 30 June 1989
… the African population through bantustans and "independent homelands". Every aspect of the National Party's platform is …
Press Statement by Oliver Tambo concerning the five-year plan presented by FW De Klerk to the National Party Conference, 30 June 1989
… the African population through bantustans and "independent homelands". Every aspect of the National Party`s platform is …
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… to make some black governments in the reserves, like the homelands, so that we will have no rights in the white areas; …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… in it. And we cannot accept a ‘solution’ which says yes to homelands, the Group Areas Act, to laws which make us believe …
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
This is the Capital of the Eastern Cape Province. The Office of the Premier, Provincial Legislature and many other Government Departments; have their…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Source A: Source…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… Territorial apartheid was sharpened and the so-called Homelands (Bantustans) were established for the various … and declared them to be citizens of one or…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… African Police (SAP), South African Defence Force (SADF), homelands police such as the KwaZulu Police (KZP), homelands armies, municipal and council police…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… in the Cape, many black children had to go to the homelands for their education. If they wished to further …
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
At a time when the country was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacre added to the bleak political…
PlaceMount Currie Nature Reserve, KZN-Kokstad
The Crystal Spring Dam located in the Mount Currie Nature Reserve allows boating and skiing on the dam. Bring your own boat! Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is the…
The Legal Veneer
… INTERNAL SECURITY ACT HRC, July 1990 1. Introduction 2. Homelands security legislation 3. Powers of the ISA Detention … legitimate political opposition…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… special areas called reserves (later called bantustans or homelands). These reserves made up only 7% of the land in … the amount to 13%. Map A: The…
PlaceThembuland
It is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the Thembu people, one of the sub-groups of the…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) stormed the World…
PlaceMakuya Nature Reserve
Makuya, also known as Makuya Nature Reserve, shares a fenceless border with the Kruger National Park and is about an hour's drive from the Pafuri Gate. Makuya…