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ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… from the arrival of autocratic leaders in the newly formed Transkei and Ciskei . Kaizer Matanzima banned the paper for …
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… Organization (SWAPO) established bases in Angola. In 1976 the African National Congress (ANC) set up the Central … with Angola to establish military bases,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… After formal application by representatives from the Transkei, the ANC’s annual convention formally recognises the Transkei as a province under the ANC’s…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… would govern itself independent of White intervention. Transkei was the first territory to benefit from the provision of this Act when the Transkei Self…
The strangulation of activity
… The Methodist Church of South Africa was banned in the Transkei. This ban was lifted in June 1988 under the military … The Suppression of Communism Act of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… was telling me how much Jeff had enjoyed his trip to the Transkei while she was panicking about him back here in Cape … in the last 20 years (860 000 in 1954…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… of the sale of liquor had increased between 1973 and 1976. Judging from the ferocity with which location … these parts of Soweto. When the Soweto riots broke…
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, … burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school children in…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… the second Bantustan to gain ‘independence’ following the Transkei, a year earlier. The region’s President, Lucas …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… and homelands security legislation (especially in the Transkei). Denationalisation or the withdrawal of citizenship … in this document. Formal repression of…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… 11-year period of ANC history chosen for this study, from 1976 to 1986, provides material for a curious and paradoxical … to itself, its members and others…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… however, did not last long. Soon after he began, the 1976 Soweto Uprising occurred and the ANC in exile saw its …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… village of Mvezo , in the district of Qunu near Umtata , Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape ). Mandela became …
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… the option of either leaving South Africa for Swaziland or Transkei , which was regarded as independent by the South …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… around the restoration of citizenship to the residents of Transkei, Bophutatswana, Venda and Ciskei. A Transitional …
ArticleNelson Mandela 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…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976. The first two official AIDS deaths in South Africa were …
June 17
… Kissinger's visit... Kiss- inja (a dog) Soweto, September, 1976 To add to this, 300 predominantly white Wits students …
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
The origin of South Africa’s judicial capital goes back to the mid 19th century when Major H.D. Warden established a British outpost in the then Transorangia…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… and control headquarters for ANC action against SA, Transkei and Ciskei and were used as a springboard for … the ANC was planning to carry out deeds of…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… On 29 May 1976, the South African Electricity Supply Commission (ESKOM) … nuclear weapons. The two reactors, ordered from France in 1976 were installed at…
EventNaledi High School is founded
… commemorated 50th anniversary on 8 June 2013. On 8 June 1976, security police arrived at Naledi High School and … in 50% of subjects in secondary schools. On…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… African Women. Born 70 years ago, in Cofimvaba in the Transkei,on October 21, 1918, eldest of an orphaned family of … was detained for 11 months during the…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… Africa (Namibia by 1990), Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Bophuthatswana and other homelands which became …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… release where the condition was that he be confined to the Transkei . The offer was also extended to prisoners serving …
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… through Soweto and shot at by police on the 16 June, 1976! Which has now become Youth Day, a public holiday in … and historical documents relating to the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… grew into a nationwide uprising surpassing that of 1976. Students boycotted schools. Communities organised … the country and facing the tenth anniversary of…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… forces under Sir Andries StockenstrÁ¶m pushed into the Transkei forced Kreli, the Gcaleka chief, to acknowledge … War (1877-1878) Kreli was allowed to return…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo district of the Transkei. 1900 Xuma attends the Wesleyan Mission School in … after which he begins teaching at…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… period leading up to his death, beginning with the June 1976 unrest, had seen some of the most turbulent events in …