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EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
The Swaziland government welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claims the territory is historically…
EventTranskei announces plans to unban ANC and PAC
During the celebration day of independence not recognised by the international community, the President of the Transkei homeland, Tutor Ndamase, announced that…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… apartheid created ethnically defined "Bantustans" (or "Homelands") out of the "Tribal Reserves" carved out by the … 3.5 million Africans were forcibly…
PlaceTouring the Northern Cape
… 1970's however the community was sent back to their ethnic homelands by the apartheid government. The Damara group was …
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
The OR Tambo District Municipality (ORTDM) occupies the Eastern Coastal portion of the Eastern Cape Province, bordered by KwaZulu-Natal and by the Eastern Cape…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
Ezakheni is an African township that was built in the old KwaZulu homeland about 25km from the town of Ladysmith. The area was established in 1972 and its…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… call "urban blacks" through the euphemistically termed "homelands" is unacceptable to them. "Urban blacks" have no connection with the "homelands". Mr Heunis…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… are in the rural areas. 1.43 million people living in the Homelands have no income. Nearly 9 million people in the Homelands live below the breadline. One…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed strategies to influence public opinion within South Africa with the view to rebuilding its clandestine…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
In October 1981 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives bombed Sibasa Police Station in independent Vendaland. Several policemen were killed in the attack. The…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… Working Group 4 dealt with the reincorporation of the homelands, and established the principle that all residents … 1992. The party argued that the existing…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… General Assembly resolution condemned the establishment of homelands. In 1974 there was a resolution to expel South …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Chief Luthuli unequivocally rejects the Government's homelands policy . October, Chief Luthuli is elected rector …
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Act of 1959, which provided for the creation of homelands , and the development of self-governed territories …
EventButhelezi Chief Councillor of the Zululand Territorial Authority
The Zululand Territorial Authority (ZTA) became the 7th homeland to be inaugurated by the South African government. This saw the Zulu chiefs electing Chief…
EventMinister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.
M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announced that he will not stand for re-election and will resign as Minister in November 1977. At…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… Act establishes 'reserves' (later called 'bantustans' and 'homelands') and effectively zones 80% of the population (i.e. … education remains under the DET…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
EventPresident de Klerk warns General Bantu Holomisa
Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) by the Goldstone Commission, President F.W. de Klerk issued a stern…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… as part of a master plan to move all Black people to the Homelands. It was incorporated into Queenstown after …
EventBotshabelo forced into Qwa Qwa
Despite visible resistance to incorporation into the Qwa Qwa homeland, the South African government proceeded with its plan of incorporation. The incorporation…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… wage. To extend the struggle for trade union rights in the homelands. The federation also elected its office bearers at … dismissed 10,000 workers, and many…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed a…
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
The government of Ciskei introduced the National Security Decree No 19 as an attempt to curb the pressure of the increasing calls for the end of the Ciskei…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… jobless residents. Mr. Sekgala turns his eye on crumbling homelands, apartheid-created settlements meant to confine and …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
Hugh Masekela is recognized as one of the most famous and influential musicians of all time from South Africa due to his role in spreading awareness about his…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly was dissolved. Together with the Ingwavuma…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), parties operating in the homelands, and the governments of Venda and the Transkei. …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… the South African citizenship of Africans by creating 'homelands'. Africans were divided into 'ethnic groups' such …
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
Mr Velaphi Ndlovu, an IFP parliamentarian in the Kwazulu homeland claims that attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) men on United Democratic Front UDF (UDF)…