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Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… a ludicrous 13 percent of South African territory as "homelands" for the African people. South Africa belongs to …
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… Douglas Commission that the Government as creator of the homelands was compelled to support the IFP. DP member Peter …
PlaceMohodi
The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km north-west of Pietersburg (now Polokwane). The…
EventOscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born
Politician and businessman Oscar Dhlomo was born at Putellos, Umbumbulu, Natal. Dhlomo served in the homeland government of Kwa-Zulu under the leadership of…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
The Minister of Bantu Education M.C. Botha announced that the government moved towards the introduction of free and compulsory education for Black pupils. This…
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
The 'homeland' government of Bophuthatswana under the presidency of Chief Lucas Mangope decides to withdraw its squatting charges against the Bosplaas…
Covert operations
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has been focussed on those…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… only be allowed to exercise political rights in their "homelands”. The regime was consolidating its rule aiming to …
PlaceKwaNdebele
KwaNdebele (or place of the Ndebele) was granted self-government in 1984 and was intended to be the new home for the Transvaal Ndebele people. It was…
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
Transkei announced it was re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa following Pretoria’s undertaking to negotiate over disputed land. The break of…
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973
Excerpt "During 1973 the National party has been faced with increasing manifestations of black dissatisfaction and anger. The Black Conciousness movement…
EventTranskei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies
Transkei's first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, died of a heart attack. Prime Minister K.D. Matanzima announced his retirement from active politics,…
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
Mohammed Iqbal Shaik, political activist and member of the Dolphin Unit of the Special Operations Unit, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was born in Vrededorp,…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
Henry Khaaba Olonga was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Kenyan father and a Zimbabwean mother. The family moved back to his father’s homeland, Kenya, before…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… to a farmstead in Bophuthatswana, one of the artificial ‘homelands’, or Bantustans, created under apartheid to …
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… self-rule, self-government independence in their own homelands. A careful study of the Transkei plan, for example, …
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… deteriorated so much. Reserves became Bantustans and then homelands and 'self-governing states'. Whatever they were …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… in Parliament and moots the idea of independent 'homelands' for Blacks. The ANC’s NEC sends a memorandum to …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… the creation of eight (later expanded to ten) ethnic homelands or Bantustans. At the Act’s introduction Hendrik …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a coalition government with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… having a predominantly agrarian economic base ( See Homelands ). This promoted a myth of ‘rural ethnicity’ which … Act. Transgressors were arrested and…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… not include a view on the future of the TBVC independent homelands. There would be two houses of parliament. The power … and non-sexist country including the…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
Prehistory of Southern Africa The Durban area is probably best known for the historic Zulu kingdom, dating to the early 19th century. To understand the…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Childhood in the Eastern CapeNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief councillor to the paramount…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after he…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties - the most representative gathering of South African political groups ever assembled for…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… The fourth working group was to debate the future of the homelands, and the fifth working group was to deal with …
PlaceBrackenfell, Cape Town
In 1901, Andries Brink sold a portion of his farm: 'Kruispad', to George Henry Walton. He was a Scottish immigrant, who then renamed the farm: 'Brackenfell',…
BiographyOliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland …
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
Anti-apartheid organisations united under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front. One of the first steps in creating the front was to establish regional…