1. Did you note that the black homelands of Bophuthatswana have been absorbed again by the new South Africa? 2. More than a million tenant farmers were forcibly removed and taken to the overcrowded black homelands. 3. They were set up by former chairman Sol Kerzner in nominally independent black homelands to sidestep bans on gambling by the previous government in the rest of South Africa. 4. Plotters who tried to overthrow a black homeland government five years ago have been pardoned by President Nelson Mandela and released from prison. 5. A white extremist group bears the major blame for trying to disrupt the first democratic elections in a black homeland, a commission said Thursday. 6. Beer-bellied gunmen shooting unarmed civilians in a black homeland turned tail when police shot three of the whites dead. 7. During the apartheid era, black homelands, set up to strip blacks of South African citizenship, were supposed to be the domain of tribal leaders. 8. He believed the best way to fight apartheid was by economic development in the black homelands. 9. He said it would help people living in the former KwaNdebele black homeland and other nearby areas, now part of the Mpumalanga province. 10. He shook hands with all and spoke of his resolve to offer more to his people than the squalid poverty of rural Transkei, a former black homeland. |