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  Transkei. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Transkei was separated from Cape Province in 1963 to become the first of ten fl areas within South Africa that were allegedly internally self-governing.
In 1976 Transkei became the first of the homelands to be granted “independence.” The South African government then revoked the citizenship of its residents.
Transkei’s assembly controlled many internal matters, but its decisions were subject to the control of the South African government.
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 AllRefer.com - Transkei (South African Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei was bounded by the Great Kei River on the south, by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Natal on the north, and by Lesotho on the northwest.
Part of the Drakensberg Range was in W Transkei.
Roughly two thirds of the Transkei's income was provided by the South African government, and all trade was conducted through South Africa.
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 Transkei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For much of the 1900s, many fl male farmers in the Transkei were forced by punitive taxes levied only on Africans, known as poll taxes, to head north by train to work contracts underground in Johannesburg's gold mines.
His first two wives were also from what later became Transkei, also the father of his second wife Winnie Madikizela became the agriculture minister in the Transkei.
For much of its history, the Transkei homeland for Xhosa speakers was ruled by Chief Kaizer Daliwonga Matanzima, a nephew of Mandela's.
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 Transkei - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei, the former republic-in-name and fl Bantustan, situated in what is now part of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, bordered by the Umtamuuma River in the north and the Great Kei river in the south, while the Indian Ocean and the Drakensberg Mountains served as Transkei's eastern and western frontiers rspectively.
For much of its history, Transkei was ruled with an iron fist by Chief Kaizer Daliwonga Matanzima.
Lithostratigraphy of the Republic of South Africa, South West Africa/Namibia, and the republics of Bophuthatswana, Transkei, and Venda (Stratigraphy of South Africa)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /transkei.htm   (226 words)

  
 TRANSKEI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei ("jenseits des Kei"), Fläche 43.800 km², mit der Hauptstadt Umtata erhielt als Homeland innerhalb der Apartheid-Politik Südafrikas begrenzte autonome Rechte.
Von 6.240.000 Xhosa lebten 1989 2.930.000 in Transkei.
Seit 1963 verfügte Transkei über innere Selbstverwaltung und wurde als erstes Bantu-Homeland 1976 formal in die volle Unabhängigkeit entlassen.
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 TRANSKEI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei bestond uit een grote en twee kleinere enclaves in de voormalige Zuid-Afrikaanse provincies Kaapprovincie en Natal.
In 1963 kreeg Transkei als eerste thuisland “zelfbestuur”.
De officiele politiek van het ANC was dat zij niets met thuislanden te maken wilden hebben, maar een uitvalbasis als de Transkei was niet te versmaden.
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 Armoria patriæ - Republic of Transkei
The name Transkei indicates that it is the home of people living on the “far side” – away from Cape Town – of the Kei or Nciba River.
Annexation in each of the districts of Transkei was followed by the appointment of magistrates or “agents” for the territories annexed.
Throughout its existence Transkei relied heavily on subsidies from South Africa, and the four “independent” states exploited the South African Government’s anxiety by inflating their budgets with salaries for excess staff and exorbitant expenditure on the leadership and their projects.
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 Transkei (South African homeland)
Transkei is quite a large territory in easternmost Cape Province (today's Eastern Cape), with a larger main part protuding slightly into Natal and bordering Lesotho, Natal and KwaZulu, and two smaller enclaves -- one in Natal, bordering KwaZulu, and another in the Cape Province, bordering Lesotho and Orange Free State.
Transkei was the first homeland to achieve internal self-government in 1963 and followed by full "independence" on 26 October 1976.
Transkei was re-incorporated into South Africa on 27 April 1994 and is now part of the Eastern Cape province.
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 University of Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei Piscatorial Society Learn more about our Fly Fishing Club and what our area has to offer.
South Africa: The Peasants Revolt 1964 study of the struggle against apartheid in Transkei and South Africa.
Umvoodoo River Rafting A variety of options and safaris for white-water rafting on the Umzimvubu River in Transkei, South Africa.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-University_of_Transkei.html   (369 words)

  
 Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first democratic president, was born in the Transkei in 1918, and still has a home in Qunu.
For much of its history, the Transkei homeland for Xhosa speakers was ruled with an iron fist by Chief Kaizer Daliwonga Matanzima, a nephew of Mandela's, who chose to collaborate with the repressive white minority government.
But the Transkei homeland was never recognised as a legitimate government either abroad or at home, and with the collapse of apartheid, it too dissolved.
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 Cancer Registry, Epidemiology and Early Detection
PROMEC operates a population-based cancer registry in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape Province.
The dramatic, almost "epidemic" increase in the prevalence of oesophageal cancer in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape Province was first recorded almost 50 years ago.
An increased awareness of the disease was established throughout the Transkei.
www.mrc.ac.za /promec/cancer.htm   (366 words)

  
 Transkei on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tensions and transformation in a tea enterprise: Transkei, South Africa.
Farmers, labourers and the company: exploring relationships on a Transkei contract farming scheme.
Tshudwana of the Pondo tribe lies behind a matting screen in her darkened hut and begins her 28 day wait before her wedding day.
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 Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei the former republic-in-name and fl Bantustan situated in what is now east South Africa bordered by the Umtamuuma River in north and the Great Kei river in south while the Indian Ocean and the Drakensberg Mountains served as Transkei's eastern and frontiers rspectively.
For much of its history Transkei was with an iron fist by Chief Kaizer Matanzima.
The Moraeas of Southern Africa: A systematic monograph of the genus in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe (Annals of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens)
www.freeglossary.com /Transkei   (244 words)

  
 Contextualising Crime and Poverty - Stolen Opportunities, The Impact of Crime on South Africa's Poor - Monograph No 14, ...
Although the former Transkei did provide reported crime figures for January to December 1996, provincial police managers regard the data as an uneven reflection of the extent of crime; consistent reporting procedures still need to be established in some areas, and there is no history of data management at station level.
The Transkei Police were the key to the buttressing of state authority under the autocratic and corrupt regime of George Matanzima – control of policing fell to a select number of ex-Rhodesian security force members, and increasingly became a brutal mechanism for eradicating political opposition.
The discussion on policing in colonial Transkei pointed to the degree to which state representation in rural areas was embodied in a limited number of institutions – generally magistrates, district commissioners and the police.
www.iss.co.za /PUBS/Monographs/No14/Part2.html   (8307 words)

  
 Transkei Revisited
Yet by a strange paradox the Transkei is the least politically organised area in the Union.
The Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 established local 'tribal authorities' in the African reserves, which were designed to replace existing institution such as the United Territories General Council or Bunga in the Transkei, an elected body established in 1932.
Although discriminatory and largely powerless, the Bunga embodied the principle that the Transkei and its citizens were to be regarded as part of South Africa.
www.africawithin.com /mandela/transkei_revisited_0256.htm   (1479 words)

  
 NP Woos Transkei Voters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A vital element of this vision was that land should be transferred back from the state to traditional authorities, and a system worked out that would allow individuals to use that land as collateral for farming loans, and offer them security of tenure.
The Transkei could produce enough food for itself, for the rest of the country, "and there'll still be enough left to export as well", he said.
Van Schalkwyk was preceded by a praise singer in suit and tie rather than the traditional skins, who described him as "the boy who can lead the people of Transkei to their success...the boy with an MA in political science".
www.anc.org.za /elections/news/en051105.html   (591 words)

  
 Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ndita, a student of Hlophe's when he lectured law at the University of Transkei, was quizzed by JSC member Milton Seligson on what Seligson said was a "minor...
The families of two young Port Elizabeth men, who died after their vehicle hit a cow in the Transkei, have started a campaign to get authorities to keep...
Transkei, the former republic-in-name and fl Bantustan, situated in what is now east South Africa, bordered by the Umtamuuma River in the north and the Great Kei river in the south, while the Indian Ocean and the Drakensberg Mountains served as Transkei's eastern and western frontiers rspectively.
www.wikiverse.org /transkei   (255 words)

  
 Holomisa Hits Campaign Trail In Rural Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa on Monday hit the campaign trail in rural Transkei, hopping between villages by helicopter to pound out his election message.
At Dadamba, 12km west of Willowvale, pigs and goats fled in panic and schools in the area emptied as pupils and teachers rushed out to greet the man who was once military ruler of the Transkei.
Earlier at the town of Centane, he delivered much the same message, speaking to about 500 people, which also including a number of school children, at a marquee only 50m from a tar road inaugurated by Mbeki last week.
www.anc.org.za /elections/news/en052509.html   (236 words)

  
 Human Organization: Labor and Beer in the Transkei, South Africa: Xhosa Work Parties in Historical and Contemporary ...
I analyze cooperative work and beer drinking in terms of the general relationship between labor and the festive consumption of beer in work and nonwork contexts and thereby avoid the pitfall of analyzing only those work parties at which beer is consumed.
Both types may be found in the same community (as in the Transkei), and in such cases it ought to be possible to account for them within a common analytical framework.
An analysis of work parties in the Transkei requires a historical perspective to link cooperative work to both the changing relations between households and the internal composition of households in general.' The latter has a crucial bearing on the need for cooperation between households and on the relationships through which cooperative labor is organized.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3800/is_200404/ai_n9393219   (1476 words)

  
 South African Honours and Awards: Homelands: Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Transkei Police (TP) was established in 1976 and incorporated into the South African Police Service in 1994.
Transkei Independence Medal — issued to founder members of the force in 1976 • ribbon colours: Transkei flag.
The Transkei Defence Force (TDF) was formed in 1976 and incorporated into the South African National Defence Force in 1994.
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 Transkei - nationalanthems.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1976, Transkei was proclaimed by the apartheid-era South Africa as an "independent fl homeland" (in actuality, an area set up to reduce the fl population of South Africa by giving them citizenship in this new area.) Not internationally recognized, Transkei was re-incorporated into South Africa when the apartheid system was abolished in 1994.
In fact, the song was written and composed in what later became Transkei; as well, the writer of the song, Enoch Sontonga, was a member of the Xhosa people, which was the official language of Transkei.
Interestingly, not only was "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika" used for decades prior to the creation of Transkei as the anthem of the anti-apartheid movement, but also, this song became part of the anthem of the new South Africa after Transkei was re-integrated.
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 Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
'''Transkei''' ("jenseits des Kei") war das erste der ehemaligen autonomen Bantu-Verwaltungsgebieten im östlichen Kapland in Südafrika.
Seit 1963 verfügte Transkei über innere Selbstverwaltung und wurde als erstes Bantu-Homeland am 26.
Transkei wurde in die südafrikanische Provinz Ost-Kap eingegliedert.
www.kraeuter-und-gewuerze.de /Transkei   (180 words)

  
 Natal Province (South Africa 1910-1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It was reorganized in the new province of KwaZulu/Natal, excluding the two pieces of Transkei territory that are now part of the new Eastern Cape.
For this reason Griqualand East was not included in the National Party's plans for an independent Transkei, and when that state took its "independence" in 1976, Griqualand East was an exclave of the Cape Province.
A consequence of the incorporation of Griqualand East was that the Umzimkulu district of Transkei became an exclave in Natal.
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 Transkei (from SOUTH AFRICA) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Bordering the Indian Ocean and surrounded on land by South Africa, Transkei comprises three discontinuous geographic units, two of which are landlocked and one of which borders Lesotho.
Transkei consisted of three separate land units, two much smaller than the third.
Transkei consisted of three separate land units, which now form part of Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal...
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 Transkei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Transkei (pronounced Trans sky) was a free state and homeland to African natives during apartheid.
The schools are very basic buildings in the rural area of Transkei.
The largest city we visited in the Transkei was Umtata and also the home of the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandala.
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 Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa in 1918.
Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa in 1918.
Coursework and Essays: By Subject: History: Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa in 1918
Below is a short sample of the essay "Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa in 1918.".
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