APPENDIX C

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MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA, c.1996

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PROVINCE

CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE

DESCRIPTION

Eastern Cape

Mvezo

Mandela’s birthplace.

 

Qunu

Village where Mandela lived as a child and built a home after his release from prison.

 

Mqhekezweni

The Great Place where Mandela moved to when he was around the age of nine.

 

Engcobo

Clarkebury Boarding Institute where Mandela obtained his junior certificate.

 

Fort Beaufort

Attended college at Healdtown.

 

Alice

Attended University College of Fort Hare.

Gauteng

Johannesburg

Moved to Johannesburg in April 1941.

 

 

Lived in Alexandra and Soweto before his imprisonment.

 

 

Lived in Soweto and Houghton upon his release.

 

Pretoria

Pretoria Central Prison, 1962–63, 1963–64.

 

 

Location of his trial in 1962 and the Rivonia Trial.

 

Sharpeville

Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960.

 

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.

 

Cape Town

Imprisoned at Pollsmoor Prison, March 1982 to August 1988.

 

 

Treated at Tygerberg Hospital, 1988.

 

 

Treated at Constantiaberg MediClinic, 1988.

 

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

 

Northern Cape

 

Western Cape

Natal

KwaZulu-Natal

Orange Free State

Free State

Transvaal

North West

 

Limpopo

 

Mpumalanga

 

Gauteng