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A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… Temba Qabula was born on December 12, 1942 in Flagstaff, Transkei. His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Township and Albertsville. Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in the Making a work of political analysis which is … deeply critical of the system of local…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Shangaan and Venda). Some homelands that were created were Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Lebowa to name a few. …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… working closely with other organisations. For instance, in Transkei SOYA established branches and aligned itself with …
Mission Stations - G-H
… It was the cemetery of Gnadenthal.” GENGELEKA , Transkei, Cape: No data available GEORGE , Cape: SPG 1850; … GINGA'S, Lusikisiki, Cape: No data available…
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… with removal in the Western Cape, in Natal, in the Transkei and in other parts of the country. The educational …
PlaceNdabeni
… men in the city to return to their ‘rural homes’ in the Transkei - the first of the four homelands to be granted …
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… independence was recognised by South Africa and the Transkei only. In order to gain independent country status …
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… elections. Major-General Bantu Holomisa, ruler of the Transkei Black homeland, said Ramushwana's admission meant …
PlaceWalter Sisulu University, Mthatha- Eastern Cape
… resulted from the merger of the former University of Transkei; Border Technikon and Eastern Cape Technikon. The …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… The act also laid out that the Glen Grey area and the Transkei should remain “purely native territories”. This act …
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… impending meeting with George Matanzima and members of the Transkei Cabinet, concerning their possible release as part of the Transkei Homeland Independence…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… university libraries and advantage was taken of the Transkei’s bogus independence by directly mailing copies to …
PlaceNqamakwe
… and were granted lands in the frontier districts of the Transkei and Ciskei , at Xhosa expense and in order to act as …
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 …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… as far as Mpame, in the region later to be known as the Transkei . c. AD 600 Beginnings of the Late Iron Age in the …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… situation and ‘decolonization in South Africa’. In the Transkei a form of self- government was granted in 1963. The …
PlaceDutywa, Eastern Cape
… and was made a municipality in 1913, formerly part of the Transkei bantustan. It is the birthplace of Thabo Mbeki, who …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… evening: "I worked at the Labour Recruiting Offices in the Transkei dealing with workers wishing to work in the Republic … was the only company that provided…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… Batandwa Ndondo was expelled from the University of Transkei where he played a leading role in the Student …
PlaceCiskei
… citizenship. The Ciskei remained with its neighbour, Transkei , among the most neglected areas of South Africa. …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a miner, baker's …
PlaceHobeni
… Cape Province. In this under developed Area, in the former Transkei Homeland, where a racist government once tried to …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… all the way from the homelands (predominantly Ciskei and Transkei ) to visit their husbands in Cape Town. The removals …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… born in Cape Town. Tennyson Xola Makiwane is born in the Transkei . Eric Ngcobo is born near Melmoth, Zululand. The … Zaniewe Winnifred Mandela is born at…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… argument into four sections East Griqualand, Pondoland, Transkei proper. The first three average more than a quarter … inhabited must be left out of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… promised that if they could just wait until after the Transkei independence on October 26 5 it would be quite … to take place on the sixteenth all about so…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… ANC branches could be revived. Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in the Making a work of political analysis which is … deeply critical of the system of local…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Dadoo and Yusuf Cachalia are detained at Idutywa in the Transkei as they entered the area without the necessary … the resistance movement. Mandela briefly…