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What does Ciskei mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A former bantustan in the southeast of South Africa, formed in 1961, declared independent in 1981, and reintegrated in 1993.
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They were later joined by the Ciskei to become the so-called TBVC states.
He said the Ciskei Defence Force standing orders specified the use of minimum force whenever soldiers had to fire.
Black political organizations were unbanned in February, the ANC leader Nelson Mandela was released from jail, and in March the Ciskei homeland government collapsed.
Bongani Blessing Finca is director of Lovedale Press in the Ciskei, South Africa.
The 184,000 hectare property on the eastern banks of the Fish River fell within the then Ciskei region, a former Bantustan homeland during the apartheid administration.
Numerous efforts by the police to evict people, including forcibly removing them to the Transkei and Ciskei, failed to stem the flow of people to the area.

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