Place:Transkei, South Africa

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NameTranskei
TypeBantustan
Coordinates31.333°S 29°E
Located inSouth Africa     (1959 - 1994)
See alsoEastern Cape, South Africaprovince of which it has been a part since 1994
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Mount Ayliff
Mount Frere ( - 1994 )
Umtata ( - 1994 )
Unknown
Buntingville
Clarkebury
Engcobo
Flagstaff
Idutywa
Lady Frere
Port St. Johns
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Transkei (meaning the area beyond [the river] Kei), officially the Republic of Transkei, was an unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994. It was, along with Ciskei, a Bantustan for the Xhosa people—and operated as a nominally independent parliamentary democracy. Its capital was Umtata (renamed Mthatha in 2004).

Transkei represented a significant precedent and historic turning point in South Africa's policy of apartheid and "separate development"; it was the first of four territories to be declared independent of South Africa. Throughout its existence, it remained an internationally unrecognised, diplomatically isolated, politically unstable de facto one-party state, which at one point broke relations with South Africa, the only country that acknowledged it as a legal entity. In 1994, it was reintegrated into its larger neighbour and became part of the Eastern Cape province.

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