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List of deaths in detention
… 29/07 20 35 56 Burgersfort Police Sta. Mdantsane Cells, Ciskei North End Cells, Port Elizabeth 215 1 333 1988 69. …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… the NP meets with the governments of Bophuthatswana and Ciskei, the IFP, the Solidarity Party, the National People’s …
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… incidence of violence was the killing and burning of a Ciskei police officer immediately after the burial of Mxenge. …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… April in Venda, Gazankulu, Lebowa, KwaZulu, Transkei and Ciskei. The African National Congress(ANC) under the …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… the four 'independent' homelands, namely; Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, and Venda, attended a five-nation summit in …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… Bantustans such as Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei provided a good example of change in the leadership …
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… of autocratic leaders in the newly formed Transkei and Ciskei . Kaizer Matanzima banned the paper for three weeks in …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… to the residents of Transkei, Bophutatswana, Venda and Ciskei. A Transitional Executive Council (TEC) was set up for …
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… headquarters for ANC action against SA, Transkei and Ciskei and were used as a springboard for terrorist action … planning to carry out deeds of terror in SA…
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… the freedom given to Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei to choose whether, they wanted to be incorporated into …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. The SADF displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some …
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… the then Capital of the ‘Independent’ or Bantustan of Ciskei , on the 7th of September 1992. They all demanded an …
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… protesters gathered outside of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei (an independent homeland or Bantustan ), and demanded … of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo and…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Venda). Some homelands that were created were Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Lebowa to name a few. …
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… revealed by the report was devastating and extensive. In Ciskei, a Black 'homeland', the study found elderly people …
PlaceOld Morley
… Fish River in the region that later became known as the Ciskei. The amaFengu were known across Southern Africa as …
PlaceNqamakwe
… lands in the frontier districts of the Transkei and Ciskei , at Xhosa expense and in order to act as a buffer …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… examining, at the request of the government of the Ciskei, the question of the feasibility of independence of the Ciskei releases its report. It finds that…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… the future of TBVC (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei) states; the role of the international community, if … at Bisho where many protesters opposing…
PlaceTranskei
… for the amalgamation of all Xhosa territory, including the Ciskei, under his leadership. In 1976 Transkei became the … practitioners conceived a plan to…
Education for Service
… National Party Ciskei Government …
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… apartheid homelands – in both KwaZulu and the Ciskei. The third stage begins in the 1990s with …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… who came all the way from the homelands (predominantly Ciskei and Transkei ) to visit their husbands in Cape Town. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… March, Violence erupts in South Africa's 'homelands'. Ciskei falls in a military coup. 2 March, The African … overthrew the leader of the "independent…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… granted independence: Bophuthatswana, Venda, Transkei and Ciskei. Kangwane was next in line for this apparent …
PlaceWindermere
… to Cape Town from rural areas such as the Transkei and Ciskei in search of work. Though earlier residents were … to the Cape from rural areas such as the…
PlaceSada
… Whittlesea, in Queenstown-known to many as e-Hewu, in Ciskei. I wasn’t born and bred there-but every December …
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… causes damage of R100 000 26/08/83 Government buildings: Ciskei consular generals offices, Carlton Centre, … cause structural damage 12/09/83 Government…
Address by Mashatile on the occasion of the 20th commemoration of the Bisho massacre, 7 September, 2012
… to demand basic rights denied to them by the then Ciskei regime. These patriots were determined to claim their … persistent suppression of political activity…
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… children who had been sent to schools in the Transkei and Ciskei to come back to Cape Town to join their comrades. One … started buying other businesses in…