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A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… decentralisation to improve the economic lot of the homelands. Linked with these aims was the thorny issue of how …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… area, would be allocated to any one of nine self-governing homelands whose citizenship would be based upon the tribal, … under Lebowa. The four areas were…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some…
The Minister of Home Affairs of KwaNdebele, Piet Ntuli, is killed in a car bomb explosion in the homeland. The date of this e
In the homeland of Ciskei, a mutiny by police and defence forces led to the resignation of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. The TEC immedi
Chief Patrick Mphephu, Chief Minister of Venda, is to hold talks with Prime Minister John Vorster on the issue of homeland inde
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… Africa's urban work force throughout the country. The homelands in and around the Orange Free State The dawn of … Africans. In 1953 the South African…
EventKaNgwane is proclaimed a self-governing territory.
… KaNgwane is among the 10 homelands that were created to rid South Africa of its Black … it was reintegrated into South Africa, like the other nine homelands,…
BiographyMatome Maponya
Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an existence on their…
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… agricultural sphere were not unreservedly accepted in the homelands. Opposition came from two sides. On the one hand, … authorities and the agricultural…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… formations that included political formations linked to homelands. This suggests that Zwelithini, and by extension, … for ethnic government in African…
Miriam Makeba is nominated in the category World Music Album for her album Homeland at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Ang
BiographyDawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers
Dawie de Villiers was born on 10 July 1940 in Burgersdorp, one of three children of Elsa and Coenie de Villiers. Dawie’s father was a railway clerk, organiser…
BiographyIan Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in…
Zulu Community
… Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Zulu people South African … more ). In 1953, the South African…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… as well as allowing some contact with blacks involved in homelands . A new phase in the UDF was once again ushered in … For the first time elections for all…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘homeland’, now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
Frederick Nkomo was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and…
ArticleTswana
… Africans. In 1953 the South African Government introduced homelands; the Tswana in South Africa were declared citizens …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… was also made compulsory. Because of the government's ‘homelands’ policy, no new high schools were built in Soweto …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … attempted to confine them to the nominally self…
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
… help restore order. Click here for our Special Feature on homelands. … Africa Sends Troops to Restore Order in Ciskei : Black homelands: A coup leads to…
PlaceGazankulu
… self-government in 1973. However, like the other nine homelands, the rest of the world did not accept it as a …
EventMass funeral for the victims of Bisho massacre
… South Africa should be a no-go area and this included the 'Homelands'. He said that the ANC holds F. W. de Klerk's government responsible for creating the…
Provincial government and symbols
… What are they called? 4. What happened to the homelands after 1993? Activity Do a project on your province. …
EventSebe seeks International Court of Justice to mediate in the ‘Kei dispute
… Apartheid government originally created these Bantustan 'homelands' for Xhosa-speaking people based on racist and …
PlaceKaNgwane
… it was reintegrated into South Africa, like the other nine homelands, and it became part of the Mpumalanga Province . …