Transkei (/trænˈskeɪ, trɑːn-, -ˈskaɪ/ tran-SKAY, TRAHN-, -SKY, meaning the area beyond [the river] Kei), officially the Republic of Transkei (Xhosa:...
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List of leaders of the TBVC states (redirect from List of Presidents of Transkei)
relations of South Africa during apartheid The Status of Transkei Act 100 of 1976 granted Transkei "independence" with effect from 26 October 1976. The Status...
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The Transkei Defence Force (TDF) was established during March 1981, from the 141 Battalion of the South African Defence Force (SADF). It was the defence...
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It was first established as an engineering campus of the University of Transkei in 1985 and received autonomy in 1994. In 2004, almost 9000 students registered...
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The University of Transkei was a university in Umtata in the former bantustan of Transkei in South Africa. It was founded in 1976 as a branch of the University...
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were forcibly resettled in the Ciskei and Transkei, the other Xhosa homeland. In contrast to the Transkei, which was largely contiguous and deeply rural...
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Energy Department XM – Transkei army XP – Transkei police XPT – Transkei traffic police XRT – Transkei Road Transport Service Transkei became part of the...
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self-governing territories, similar to the Transkei. The Status of the Transkei Act, 1976 declared the Transkei to be an independent state and no longer...
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September 1956. The Transkei was granted self-government by the Transkei Constitution Act 48 of 1963. This Act established the Transkei Legislative Assembly...
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Eastern Cape Division (redirect from Transkei Provincial Division)
the Transkei was removed from the jurisdiction of the Grahamstown court when the Transkeian High Court was established at Mthatha. When the Transkei received...
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Transkeian honours system was instituted after the South African bantustan of Transkei was declared independent in 1976. A range of orders, decorations, and medals...
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Bantu Holomisa (category Heads of government of Transkei)
joined the Transkei Defence Force in 1976 and had become a brigadier by 1985. Holomisa forced the resignation and exile of Prime Minister of Transkei George...
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Mthatha (category Transkei)
after the independence of the Transkei in 1977 it became the University of Transkei. In 2005, the University of Transkei with the Border Technikon and...
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The 1987 Transkei coup d'état was a bloodless military coup in Transkei, an unrecognised state and a nominally independent South African homeland for the...
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Transkei dwarf chameleon or Pondo dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion caffer) is a chameleon endemic to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Transkei dwarf...
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Kaiser Matanzima (category Prime ministers of Transkei)
Mathanzima (15 June 1915 – 15 June 2003), was the long-term leader of Transkei. In 1950, when South Africa was offered to establish the Bantu Authorities...
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1960. After the quelling of the revolt, Mpondoland was made part of the Transkei homeland in 1963, which in turn became a nominally-independent bantustan...
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Mandela met Evelyn Mase, a trainee nurse and ANC activist from Engcobo, Transkei. Entering a relationship and marrying in October 1944, they initially lived...
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OR Tambo District Municipality (redirect from Transkei District)
The OR Tambo District Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala weSithili sase OR Tambo) is one of the seven districts of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa...
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Tutor Ndamase (category Presidents of Transkei)
Vulindlela Ndamase; 1921–1997) was the third President of the bantustan of Transkei, which was granted nominal independence from South Africa on 26 October...
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Stella Sigcau (category Prime ministers of Transkei)
female Prime Minister of the bantustan of Transkei before being deposed in a military coup in 1987. After Transkei was merged into South Africa following...
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Cape, it was formed in 1994 out of the Xhosa homelands or bantustans of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province. The...
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This is a list of notable shopping centres in South Africa with the aim of including all (and only) shopping centres with at least two anchor stores such...
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Morganatic marriage (section Transkei)
Mandela, a nobleman by birth of the Xhosa Thembus that reside in the Transkei region of the Cape coast, was nevertheless unable to ascend the throne...
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List of elections in South Africa (section Transkei)
This article lists elections for legislative or quasi-legislative bodies in South Africa. 15 September 1910 20 October 1915 20 March 1920 8 February 1921...
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Faso (1987)c Burundi (1987)c Republic of the Congo (1987) Tunisia (1987)c Transkei (1987)c Benin (1988) São Tomé and Príncipe (1988) Burkina Faso (1989) Ethiopia...
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independence, and it was later absorbed into the Soviet Union in 1944. Transkei was a partially recognized state which existed between 1976 and 1994. The...
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University of Transkei. The university is named after Walter Sisulu, a prominent figure in the struggle against apartheid. The University of the Transkei was established...
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Mandisa Maya (section Transkei Division: 2000–2006)
in September 2022. She joined the bench in May 2000 as a judge of the Transkei Division of the High Court of South Africa and was elevated to the Supreme...
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Fengu people (section Transkei and Ciskei)
was brought to an end by a series of devastating droughts across the Transkei, which began to place severe strain on intertribal relations. Their severity...
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