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Ciskei
Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape Province in
se South Africa; the capital is East London. Eastern Cape was created in 1994 from the
e part of the former
Cape Province. It incorporates the former, apartheid-created homelands of Transkei and Ciskei. Area: 169,600sq km (65,466sq mi). Pop. (2000 est.) 6,978,387.
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Shots Disputed In Ciskei Slaying Probe; Accounts Conflict On Who Fired First
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/24/1992; ; 624 words
; A lawyer for the Ciskei Defense Force today told an inquiry that soldiers who...ballistics evidence. A ballistics report prepared for the Ciskei attorney general indicated that the lone Ciskei soldier killed in the Sept. 7 incident had been hit...
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28 Killed in S. African Homeland; Troops' Fusillade Routs ANC, Communist Protesters Entering Ciskei
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/8/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...independent South African homeland of Ciskei today sprayed volleys of automatic-weapons...been aimed at peacefully overthrowing Ciskei's military ruler, Brig. Oupa Gqozo...South Africa bestowed independence on Ciskei in 1981. Gqozo, who assumed power in...
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Coup plot in Ciskei homeland fails as soldiers refuse to join
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/10/1991; ; 517 words
; ...military government in the black homeland of Ciskei yesterday, but the plan failed when soldiers...Indian Ocean. South African troops entered Ciskei to help keep order after the attempt...any doubt," he said. Gqozo was not in Ciskei when the coup attempt began yesterday...
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Blood in the homelands. (violence in Ciskei)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/12/1992; 700+ words
; ...of them and wounding nearly 200, the Ciskei police have added a new tragedy to the...Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei--were declared independent, while...South Africa. But three large homelands, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu (where Chief...
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Slaughter in Ciskei. (South African slaughter) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/12/1992; 700+ words
; ...live on. And when black policemen in Ciskei fire on unarmed African National Congress...today's South Africans (see page 69). Ciskei is one of these. It began its life as...white South African government invented Ciskei, built it a capital and gave it money...
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Panel Blames Ciskei for Massacre
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/1/1992; ; 616 words
; ...today assailed the security forces of the Ciskei homeland for the "morally and legally...National Congress marchers at Bisho, the Ciskei capital, on Sept. 7. The commission...injury." In its condemnation of the Ciskei troops, the commission, under the chairmanship...
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Ciskei Soldiers Fired On ANC Marchers Without Order.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 12/4/2001; 700+ words
; East London, Dec 03, 2001 Former Ciskei soldier Bododo Qushu told the Bisho High...was testifying in the trial of former Ciskei Defence Force (CDF) field commander...to the death of 29 ANC marchers and a Ciskei soldier. Qushu also said two soldiers...
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Former Ciskei Commander Apologises for Bisho Shooting.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 12/6/2001; 648 words
; ...Dec 05, 2001 A commander of the former Ciskei soldiers publicly apologised to a victim...Mkosana, the field commander of the former Ciskei soldiers, apologised to Ntembeko Mafa...during which 30 people were shot when Ciskei soldiers opened fire on the marchers...
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State of Emergency Declared in Ciskei
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/7/1990; 322 words
; The new military rulers of Ciskei, one of four nominally independent...a bloodless coup Sunday that ousted Ciskei's pro-apartheid president-for...have wide support among residents of Ciskei, many of whom viewed Sebe's rule...
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ECDC to Collect Millions Owed to Former Ciskei Development Corporation.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 10/29/2002; 651 words
; ...debt that was owed to the now defunct Ciskei Development Corporation. There is a special...against debtors who owed funds to the Ciskei Development Corporation that was dissolved by the provincial government. The Ciskei Development Corporation and the Transkei...
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Ciskei
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ciskei , former black "homeland" and nominal...the southeast. The capital was Bisho. Ciskei was largely dependent on South Africa for...government and cultural preservation. Ciskei was designated for Xhosa-speaking people...
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Xhosa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...two independent states, Transkei and Ciskei. In 1989 the estimated number of Xhosa living in Transkei was 3,500,000 and in Ciskei, 1,000,000. Xhosa also live in South...x2014; and on farms outside Transkei and Ciskei. In 1986 the total population of Xhosa...
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South Africa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...national homelands that existed under South African sovereignty. Transkei , the first homeland (1963), Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , and Venda were all granted "independence" by the early 1980s and existed as nominal republics, although none were recognized...
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bantustan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...native reserves." Four were proclaimed independent— Transkei (1976), Bophuthatswana (1977), Venda (1979), and Ciskei (1981)—but no foreign government recognized them as independent nations. Citizens of independent homelands lost...
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South Africa, Christianity in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...country. Particularly influential was the Church of Scotland mission centred around the educational institution at Lovedale in Ciskei. The Great Trek (1837) resulted in the establishment as the State Church in the Transvaal of the Hervormde Kerk, separate...
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