Gazankulu
Gazankulu | |||||||||
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| 1973–1994 | |||||||||
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Coat of arms
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| Motto: "Mintirho ya Vulavula" (Tsonga: Deeds count) | |||||||||
| Anthem: "Hosi Katekisa Afrika" (Tsonga: God Bless Africa) | |||||||||
Location of Gazankulu (red) within South Africa (tan). | |||||||||
| Status | Bantustan | ||||||||
| Capital | Giyani | ||||||||
| Common languages | Tsonga English Afrikaans | ||||||||
| Chief Minister | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Self-government | 1 February 1973 | ||||||||
• Re-integrated into South Africa | 27 April 1994 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1980 | 7,730 km2 (2,980 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1980 | 514,220 | ||||||||
• 1991 | 954,771 | ||||||||
| Currency | South African rand | ||||||||
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Gazankulu was a Bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for the Tsonga people. It was located in both the Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo province and Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga province.