Chief Vuna Miya

Updated: 20 Jul 2026

Summary

Banished Person

Between 1953 and 1957, there was conflict around Bantu Affairs (BA) and various other issues in the Bergville area, [Natal, now KwaZulu-Natal]. As a result, four people were banished. One of them was Chief Vuna Miya, who was first deposed in 1949 after being Chief for seven years, and then banished in September 1954 to “Chloe Native Trust Farm No. 943, Pietersburg District, [Northern]Transvaal, [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province].”

How we know this

01Contribution by Professor S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under Apartheid by Professor S. Badat.

Last updated · 20 Jul 2026

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2012, March 26). Chief Vuna Miya. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0080782

South African History Online (2012) 'Chief Vuna Miya', South African History Online, 26 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0080782 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Chief Vuna Miya [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0080782, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Chief Vuna Miya." South African History Online, 26 Mar. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0080782. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Chief Vuna Miya." South African History Online. March 26, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/B-0080782.