PROVINCE |
CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE |
DESCRIPTION |
Eastern Cape |
Mvezo |
Mandela’s birthplace. |
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Qunu |
Village where Mandela lived as a child and built a home after his release from prison. |
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Mqhekezweni |
The Great Place where Mandela moved to when he was around the age of nine. |
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Engcobo |
Clarkebury Boarding Institute where Mandela obtained his junior certificate. |
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Fort Beaufort |
Attended college at Healdtown. |
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Alice |
Attended University College of Fort Hare. |
Gauteng |
Johannesburg |
Moved to Johannesburg in April 1941. |
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Lived in Alexandra and Soweto before his imprisonment. |
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Lived in Soweto and Houghton upon his release. |
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Pretoria |
Pretoria Central Prison, 1962–63, 1963–64. |
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Location of his trial in 1962 and the Rivonia Trial. |
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Sharpeville |
Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960. |
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Rivonia |
Liliesleaf Farm, the underground safe house. |
KwaZulu-Natal |
Pietermaritzburg |
All-In African Conference, 22 March 1961. |
|
Howick |
Arrested, 5 August 1962. |
Western Cape |
Robben Island |
Imprisoned on Robben Island for two weeks from May 1963, and for eighteen years from 13 June 1964 to 30 March 1982. |
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Cape Town |
Imprisoned at Pollsmoor Prison, March 1982 to August 1988. |
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Treated at Tygerberg Hospital, 1988. |
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Treated at Constantiaberg MediClinic, 1988. |
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Paarl |
Held at Victor Verster Prison, December 1988 to 11 February 1990. |
When South Africa’s first democratically elected government came to power in 1994, the government reorganised the ten existing Bantustans, or homelands, and the four existing provinces into nine smaller fully integrated provinces as shown on this map. The four provinces that existed from 1910–94 were reorganised into the new provinces as follows:
OLD PROVINCES |
NEW PROVINCES |
Cape Province |
Eastern Cape |
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Northern Cape |
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Western Cape |
Natal |
KwaZulu-Natal |
Orange Free State |
Free State |
Transvaal |
North West |
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Limpopo |
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Mpumalanga |
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Gauteng |