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Lebowa is proclaimed a self-governing territory. The Northern Sotho ‘homeland’ Lebowa becomes the fourth ‘bantustan’, with Bhes
The Ciskei ‘homeland’ government proclaims the introduction of emergency powers, after violent incidents and rioting. The power
The government announces programmes for expanded development and augmented political powers for the Ovambo and Kavango homeland
The South African government begins removing 45 000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophuthatswana homeland
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki in the Mpondoland region, which is in the north…
Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje
Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made his way to Fort Hare,…
EventDr Cedric Phatudi, Lebowa Chief Minister, dies
Cedric Namedi Phatudi was born in ga-Mphahlele in 1912. Phatudi worked as an educator and educational administrator. He served as the president of the…
President Mangope extends the state of emergency, declared in four districts on 7 March, to the whole Bophuthatswana homeland.
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… project, created ethnically defined 'Bantustans' (or 'Homelands') out of the 'Reserve's carved out by the 1913 Land … Africans were forcibly removed to the…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… power. The African (Bantu) groups were separated into homelands, or Bantustans , consigned there to become separate … 13% of the South Africa’s land was set…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… project, created ethnically defined 'Bantustans' (or 'Homelands') out of the 'Reserves' carved out by the 1913 Land … Africans were forcibly removed to the…
The QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status. Date is given as 1 November by the following sources: Kalley, J.A.; Schoe
The QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status. Date is given as 1 November by the following sources: Kalley, J.A.; Schoe
The government expands its defence potential by enrolling Blacks for defence services. This policy has the support of ‘homeland
The seventh ‘homeland’ is inaugurated with the installation of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi as Chief Executive Officer of the Zululan
Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising
Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising
ANC leaders meet homeland leaders in Soweto. All except KwaZulu’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi agree to act together in deciding princi
The government concedes another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer the KaNgwane ‘homeland’ to Swaziland. Dr. Piet Koornho
Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin
BiographyEnos Mabuza
Enos Mabuza was born on 6 June 1939 at the Sheba Gold Mine. He attended the Sheba Mine School until Std 4 and moved to Barberton Community School until Std 6…
BiographyHudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
Ntsanwisi was born on 11 July 1920 at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With only…
The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… the despotic rule of Shaka or Zulus returning to their old homelands after Shaka's Mfecane, which had begun in around … this myth as a justification for…
BiographyNkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
Nkosinathi Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of…
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
Mathume Joseph Phaahla was born on 11 July 1957 in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… 1970s, the Apartheid government of South Africa granted Homelands/Bantustans independence, and allowed elections in … South African government. The elections…