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EventSA politician Roelf Meyer resigns.
… co-founds the United Democratic Movement (UDM) with former Transkei bantustan leader Bantu Holomisa. …
ArchiveJohannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to Black Sash National Conference 1978
… laws, Urban Areas Consolidation Act, Bophuthatswana and Transkei independence, Homelands citizenship, unemployment …
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951. … strengthened the local leadership. As…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… As a result of parent's reactions to the 1976 uprisings and their aftermath, ex-Federation of South …
ArchiveChallenge to the churches: report of a consultation on the church and the liberation of Southern Africa, held at Mindolo, Kitwe, Zambia
… situation in South Africa, the independence of the Transkei, Namibia,the role of students and the role of the …
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… poetry as a tool for Black Consciousness. He leaves in 1976, but SAHO says, “After 1976, the youth and student movements began to systematically … led him to…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… within months of its founding. The organisation banned in 1976. 1976 In the wake of the nationwide protests after the Soweto … Uprising. Detained without…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Explanations of events as shattering as those of 1976, however, require more than a set of objective … a march of 500 students through the streets of Lady…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… they camp on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei, not far from Nelson Mandela's birthplace. Forty …
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
… died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to …
EventMinister of Public Works Stella Sigcau dies
… Former Transkei Prime Minister and Minister of Public Work Stella …
EventIEC extends election dates
… These included KwaZulu, Venda, Gazankulu, Lebowa, Transkei and Ciskei. This meant that voting in those affected …
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… Amahlubi boys who had been circumcised in Herschel in the Transkei - but they lived here in Guguletu, so their parents … sword - because look what Matanzima…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… it started becoming popular in the townships. Survival (1976) was their last show, and many of the cast remained in … Revolution and Concience: South African…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… the government gazette in Pretoria (Pretoria Bureau 1975). 1976 June 16 Soweto Uprising . 100 students shot dead by …
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… Tukwini Mandela (1974””Makaziwe) Dumani Mandela(1976””Makaziwe) Kweku Mandela (1985””Makaziwe) Zaziwe Manaway …
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… fiction, and publishes two novellas titled Dusklands. 1976 Publishes In The Heart of The Country, which wins the …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Black rural South Africa in the hinterland of the former Transkei, Natal and Limpopo where there is still attachment … in 20th Century South Africa ,…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… foothills and Nguni mixed-farmers lived throughout the Transkei. The names of some present-day groups, such as …
PlaceTsolo
… Government offered to extend its "protection" in the Transkei to amaMpondo territory and, as a result, Mhlonthlo … and within the year indigenous groups…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… a sum of R2 million from former Prime Minister of the Transkei, Stella Sigcau. He also alleged that the owner of …
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was born in Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. …
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…
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… Migrant labourers across Southern Africa, from the Transkei (modern day Mthatha) and Rhodesia (modern day …
ArchiveInterview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
… (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC …
EventThe Ciskei homeland is established
… of the South African government. The Ciskei and the Transkei were two designated "states" for the Xhosa speaking …
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… she supposedly came from the rural area of Peddie in the Transkei and settled in Johannesburg. …
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… Jordan, was born at Mbokothwana Mission, Tsolo district, Transkei. After several years as teacher and having obtained …
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… executive members were either banned or had been arrested. 1976 The SASO and BPC leaders are convicted and jailed on Robben Island (see above 1975 entry)…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… executive members were either banned or had been arrested. 1976 The SASO and BPC leaders are convicted and jailed on Robben Island (see above 1975 entry)…