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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Kaiser Matanzima (category Prime Ministers of Transkei)
    misspelled Matanzima (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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  • Republic of Transkei to commemorate Independence on 26 October 1976. It was awarded to all ranks on the active strength of the Transkei Defence Force...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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, 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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    from 2017 to 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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  • of Zimbabwe Military ranks of Rhodesia The Transkei was granted "independence" by the Status of Transkei Act 100 of 1976 with effect from 26 October...
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    Makwetu was born on 6 December 1928 in Hoyita, Cofimvaba in the bantustan of Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. He was...
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  • The Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) was a political party in the nominally independent South African Xhosa bantustan of Transkei. It was founded...
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    1977. However, its independence, like the other Bantustans of Ciskei, Transkei and Venda was not recognized by any country other than South Africa. Bophuthatswana...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • include the former states of East Germany, the Soviet Union, Tannu Tuva, Transkei, or Yugoslavia, or the partially recognized states of Kosovo, Northern...
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