The white Afrikaner administrator swept his hand out to show the poverty of the Transkei in South Africa: the round mud houses with their thatched cone roofs, the green hilly land that produced only a ...

The former Transkei region in the Eastern Cape is one of the poorest areas in South Africa. This region is well known throughout the world as a former Bantustan that was ruled by the Matanzima ...

The rolling green hills of the rural Transkei (see map) is the place Mandela thinks of as home; it is there he has built his retirement house. Growing up in the royal kraal of the Madiba clan, Mandela ...

The Transkei region in the Eastern Cape has one of the highest murder rates in the world‚ almost double the South African average. A study published in December in a UK journal‚ Medicine‚ Science and ...