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United Nations Security Council Resolution 402, adopted on December 22, 1976, after hearing from the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Lesotho, the Council expressed concern at South Africa's decision to close the border with Lesotho in many areas in an attempt to pressure the country to recognise the "independence" of the bantustan Transkei.
A Bantustan (also known as a Bantu homeland, a black homeland, a black state or simply known as a homeland; Afrikaans: Bantoestan) was a territory that the National Party administration of the Union of South Africa (1910–1961) and later the Republic of South Africa (1961–1994) set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy of ...
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Ciskei (/ s ə s ˈ k aɪ, s ɪ s-,-ˈ k eɪ / səss-KY, siss-, - KAY, meaning on this side of [the river] Kei), officially the Republic of Ciskei (Xhosa: iRiphabliki yeCiskei), was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, located in the southeast of South Africa.
The 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis was a major political crisis which began after Lucas Mangope, the president of Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent South African bantustan created under apartheid, attempted to crush widespread labour unrest and popular demonstrations demanding the incorporation of the territory into South Africa pending non-racial elections later that year. [9]
There were 1,387 new enrolled students at the university in 2019 and 2,700 enrolled students in 2018. [12] The university offers 70 accredited study programmes. [13] In June 2011, the Lesotho Times reported that half of the students in three of the seven faculties at the university failed their examinations. [14]
QwaQwa was a Bantustan ("homeland") in the central eastern part of South Africa.It encompassed a very small region of 655 square kilometres (253 sq mi) in the east of the former South African province of Orange Free State, bordering Lesotho. [3]
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.