Word: xhosas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Transkei (pronounced tran-sky), ancestral home of 3.3 million Xhosa tribesmen, will become the first of these homelands to be granted "full and free" independence. But South Africa will still control its security, its telecommunications and immigration. Forty-five percent of all Transkeians, and 80% of its adult males, will continue to work "abroad" in South Africa, which is just as well, because there are few jobs at home. After independence, the state's ruler, Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzima, will ask South Africa to give the Transkei more land to ease overcrowding (together, the nine homelands have only...