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Transkei (/ t r æ n ˈ s k eɪ, t r ɑː n-,-ˈ s k aɪ / tran-SKAY, TRAHN-, - SKY, meaning the area beyond [the river] Kei), officially the Republic of Transkei (Xhosa: iRiphabliki yeTranskei), was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994.
Xhosa people were forcibly resettled in the Ciskei and Transkei, the other Xhosa homeland. [4] [5] In contrast to the Transkei, which was largely contiguous and deeply rural, and governed by hereditary chiefs, the area that became the Ciskei had initially been made up of a patchwork of "reserves", [6] interspersed with pockets of white-owned farms.
A 1973 CIA map of Bantustans in the Republic of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia).. This article lists the leaders of the TBVC states, the four Bantustans which were declared nominally independent by the government of the Republic of South Africa during the period of apartheid, which lasted from 1948 to 1994.
"Galekaland" on a map of the Transkei Cape frontier 1875-1890. The Gcaleka House is the Great house of the Xhosa Kingdom in what is now the Eastern Cape.Its royal palace is in the former Transkei and its counterpart in the former Ciskei is the Rharhabe, which is the right hand house of Phalo.
The first name change in post-1994 South Africa. The town was originally named Lyttelton, but was renamed Verwoerdburg in 1967 in honour of Hendrik Verwoerd, the so-called "architect of Apartheid" and was deemed offensive to many people and was changed to the neutral name of Centurion. Midstream Estates → Midstream Estate (2003) [30]
Since 1994, when Transkei was reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa, the obsolete Transkeian honours system has now been given a place within the South African order of wear. [ 1 ] References
The Rharhabe House is the second senior house (Right Hand House) of the Xhosa Kingdom. Its royal palace is in the former Ciskei and its counterpart in the former Transkei is the Gcaleka, which is the great house of Phalo. The Rharhabe house was founded by Xhosa warrior Rharhabe, who was the older brother of Gcaleka ka Phalo.
Bophuthatswana was the second Bantustan to be declared an independent state by the Apartheid government, after Transkei. Its territory constituted a scattered patchwork of enclaves spread across what was then Cape Province, Orange Free State and Transvaal. Its seat of government was Mmabatho, which is now a suburb of Mahikeng.