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EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
On 11 March 1994 hundreds of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) members drove into Bophuthatswana, a Bantustan homeland in the…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… in South Africa and a white nation, of talking about homelands for the Africans in South Africa, but, also, about a white South Africa. These "homelands" are…
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
… must be divided into ethnic groups and sent to their homelands. There, they shall become a semi-peasant group, because basically the homelands are intended…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… was a forerunner of the apartheid-era ' Bantustans ' or ' homelands .' Denying the majority of South Africa's …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… was a forerunner of the apartheid-era ‘ Bantustans ’ or ‘ homelands .’ Denying the majority of South Africa's …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… people (who comprised the vast majority) to form their 'homelands’. Like the Group Areas Act, this act also got rid …
The Detention Weapon
… above, it must be mentioned that the four 'independent' homelands have evolved their own respective security … witness (with or without the agreement of the…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… was part of the old Transvaal and includes many old homelands like Venda, Gazankulu and Lebowa. The Limpopo River …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
… farming areas. The forthcoming independence of the "homelands" will of itself bring about no meaningful change in … governments. But there is one creative…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… they will not have a parliament, they have to vote in the homelands because they are still part of the tribes." … of the tribe, will he also have the right…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… banished away from their homes to the repression of the homelands where jobs were few. Homeland regimes in …
ArchiveMemorandum about the Ciskei independence
Memorandum opposing the creation of a homeland government in the Ciskei based on its negative socio-economic impact on black people.
ArchiveSay No To Ciskei Independence
Homeland Policy means: Dumping grounds for SA; A passport to poverty; Total control of workers; A divided land a divided people. Say no to Ciskei Independence
PlacePampierstad
Pampierstad (now Thuso a Sotho or Tswana word meaning Help/Assistance) was established in the former homeland of Bophuthatswana in the late 1960's. It was…
Say No To Ciskei Independence
Black on white A2 litho; four line drawings; text: Homeland Policy means: dumping grounds for SA, a Passport to poverty, Total control of workers, a divided…
ArchiveAdministration Board for the Cape Midlands: Tenders: Contract 9G
Invitation for tender for the design and supply, delivery and installation of Mechanical and Electrical plant and equipment for sewage treatment plant at…
ArchiveWhose Republic?
A2 silkscreen poster green and black on white; map of South Africa; text: Whose Republic? Citizens or Aliens? Millions of black South Africans have lost the…
EventCiskei is granted ‘independence’
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by the National…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… "Sun City," which includes the lyric "Relocation to phony homelands Separation of families I can't understand …
PlaceNamibia
… Nations in South West Africa Act laid the foundations for homelands. As in South Africa antustans, later known as homelands , were defined for the various…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… to heighten tension and to move the reincorporation of homelands up on the agenda. The tragedy also underscored the … were in progress for the…
EventA curfew is lifted in Venda
A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the unpopular Frank Ravhele regime, was lifted after the…
ArchiveKwaZulu in contemporary South Africa: a case-study in the implementation of the policy of separate development
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Historical and Political Studies…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… South Africans compelled to commute hours from remote homelands as part of a vastly expensive apartheid system …
Postscript
… laws and the restoration of citizenship to black people in homelands or independent states. No details are forthcoming …
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
George Mzimvube Matanzima, younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima and prime minister of the Transkei in 1979 and 1987, was born in Qamata, Transkei. The…
EventMiriam Makeba is nominated for a Grammy
South Africa's legendary musical sensation, Miriam Makeba, was nominated in the category World Music Album for her album Homeland at the 43rd Annual Grammy…
EventParamount Chief, Botha Sigcau is appointed the first President of Transkei
Paramount Chief of Eastern Pondoland, Botha Sigcau who had earlier supported Bantu Authorities was appointed the first President of Transkei at the opening…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… entrench racial segregation through the creation of homelands or Bantustans. Similar battles are fought in … in Parliament and moots the idea of independent …