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ArchiveUnemployment and income distribution in a homeland area
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… . He actively campaigned against the apartheid Bantustan (homelands) policy in the Transkei , and maintained close …
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… a puppet of the oppressors created by the despised Bantu homelands system. Despite the derogatory labels at home, …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… an average of four hours per day by bus between the homelands and cities like Pretoria . This assignment led to …
ArchiveSome minimum standards for personal health services in a rural homeland area
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and Queen Johanna Selepi, was born on…
EventPatrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.
Patrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
A meeting titled "Conference for Concerned South Africans" brought together some homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties. Amongst those present…
Nazi leader Hermann Goering announces that he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland.
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… In 1953, the South African Government introduced the homelands, and during the 1960s the Government's objective … skills to launch a platform that formally…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until … of tribal society. The Apartheid period Pass laws The…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… people would all become citizens of independent black homelands. The government said that black people should … declared their 'homeland' by the white…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… to the fact that Blacks could not attain freedom in the homelands; the horrors of the pass laws; and discrimination … Government’s policy of forced removals…
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
Humphrey Phakade ‘Pax’ Magwaza was born on 4 April 1962, in Lamontville, one of the oldest Durban townships, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). He was one of…
ArchiveTutor Ndamase: the homeland leader who doesn`t believe in union-bashing - or does he?
The government gives limited powers of internal self-government to ‘homeland’, Damaraland, in Namibia.
United Nations Response to Declaration of Transkei as an ‘Independent Homeland’, 26 October 1976
PlaceVenda
… capital was Thohoyandou and it was the smallest of all the Homelands. The Homelands were supposedly created to allow Black South … The United Nations (UN)…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
A group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black 'homeland'. The dissidents…
BiographyKevin Dowling
Kevin Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 July 1967. He was appointed the…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa. The Homelands After South Africa became a Union, the government … reserved areas were extended to be…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… voters that its government would restrict Blacks to the Homelands while systematically marginalizing those in the … that Blacks could only exercise political…
A clash between Bophuthatswana police and residents of Braklaagte and Leeuwfontein over incorporation into the homeland claims
Widespread revolt grips Bophuthatswana as demonstrators which demand the re-incorporation of the nominally independent homeland
A Legislative Assembly is instituted in the Venda homeland, with partial self-government granted on 1 Feb. 1973.
Lucas Manyane Mangope, president of the former homeland Bophuthatswana, is born in Motswedi, near Zeerust, Transvaal.
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… It could no longer keep black people in their Bantu homelands or remove them from the white cities. The Bantu … administered by the South African government)…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… influence, between 1963 and 1976, Steve Biko called the homelands “the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians” . He made it clear that…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the…