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Venda was founded by the South African government as a homeland for the Venda people, speakers of the Venda language. [4] The United Nations and international community refused to recognise Venda (or any other Bantustan) as an independent state.
The Venda of today are Vhangona, Takalani (Ungani), Masingo and others. Vhangona are the original inhabitants of Venda, they are also referred as Vhongwani wapo; while Masingo and others are originally from central Africa and the East African Rift, migrating across the Limpopo river during the Bantu expansion, Venda people originated from central and east Africa, just like the other South ...
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.
Thohoyandou became the capital of Venda when Venda was declared a republic in 1979, and Thovhele ´Mphephu became the President of the Republic of Venda. Thohoyandou became the centre and economic hub of the Republic of Venda. A stadium was built in Thohoyandou to celebrate the independence of Venda, and was known as the Venda Independence Stadium.
Whilst the opposition Venda Independence People's Party (VIPP) won the majority of seats for almost every election, leader Patrick Mphephu used a variety of means to assert control, including courting the appointed chiefs that constituted a majority of the parliament in 1973, and using emergency powers to detain VIPP legislators until he was ...
The 1990 Venda coup d'état was a bloodless military coup in Venda, an unrecognised state and a nominally independent South African homeland for the Venda people, which took place on 5 April 1990. The coup was led by the then 48-year-old Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana , the Chief of Staff of the Venda Defence Force , against the government of ...
National Party of Venda [4] His excellency King Patrick Ramaano Mphephu ( c. 1924 – 17 April 1988) was the first president of the bantustan of Venda , which was granted nominal independence from South Africa on 13 September 1979.
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The population census is just an estimate, there are close to 1-million Tsonga speakers in Gauteng alone, as well as close to 300 000 Venda speakers, also in Gauteng, who are there for work purposes only and have their homes in Limpopo, both the Tsonga and the Venda population are larger should the census count be done ...