An estimated 7.5 million South Africans live in the so-called independent homelands: Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Venda. 127 Each of these "independent" states has its own prison system.

SATBVC, an association of pensioners from Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei, known as TBVC States have given President Cyril Ramaphosa seven days to effect his instruction to Finance ...

The Eastern Cape was divided into two states of AmaXhosa people. These were given names, Transkei and Ciskei, twins held on the side by a river called Kei. Pseudo institutions were being set up in ...

Only four of these ten territories ever became nominally independent: the Transkei in 1976, Bophuthatswana in 1977, Venda in 1979, and Ciskei in 1981. No other country, save for South Africa ...

Only four of the 10 ever became nominally independent: Transkei in 1976, Bophuthatswana in 1977, Venda in 1979 and Ciskei in 1981. No country, save South Africa, recognised these Potemkin states ...

While most wind farms in the province are situated on white-owned private farmland, the Wesley-Ciskei project involves 11 black landowners in the former Transkei and Ciskei homelands, sites of ...

Not only did it bring to an end the notorious apartheid system, it also marked the end of the TBVC (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei) states. The four homeland countries (created by the ...

South Africa’s 20th century history is closely associated with the term apartheid. The policy of strict racial segregation was the guiding principle of the National Party, which represented a ...

An estimated 7.5 million South Africans live in the so-called independent homelands: Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and Venda. 127 Each of these "independent" states has its own prison system.

At the height of ‘grand apartheid’, the South African government under Hendrik Verwoerd produced a diabolical scheme to grant independence to 10 ‘homelands’ – Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Venda, ...