Republic of Transkei

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The Republic of Transkei was a nominally independent Bantustan created by apartheid-era South Africa for Xhosa-speaking people, internationally unrecognized and re-incorporated into South Africa in 1994.

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Label Occurrences
Republic of Transkei canonical 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf bantustan
former country
puppet state
unrecognized state
borderedBy Cape Province NERFINISHED
Lesotho NERFINISHED
Natal NERFINISHED
Republic of Ciskei NERFINISHED
capital Mthatha NERFINISHED
Umtata NERFINISHED
continent Africa
countryOfOrigin South Africa
createdAs homeland for Xhosa-speaking people
currency South African rand NERFINISHED
dateDissolved 1994-04-27
dateEstablished 1976-10-26
declaredIndependenceFrom South Africa NERFINISHED
dependentOn South Africa NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Xhosa people NERFINISHED
firstPresident Kaiser Matanzima NERFINISHED
flagDescription horizontal tricolour of green, white, and black with an emblem
governmentType one-party state
parliamentary republic (nominal)
hadMilitary Transkei Defence Force NERFINISHED
headOfStateTitle President
independenceStatus nominally independent
leader Bantu Holomisa NERFINISHED
George Matanzima NERFINISHED
Kaiser Matanzima NERFINISHED
Stella Sigcau NERFINISHED
legalSystem based on South African law
locatedIn South Africa
Southern Africa
mergedInto Eastern Cape Province NERFINISHED
motto “Ubulumko, Ubukhosi, Inkululeko” NERFINISHED
mottoEnglish “Wisdom, Nobility, Freedom”
mottoLanguage Xhosa
notRecognizedBy United Nations NERFINISHED
international community
officialLanguage English
Xhosa
partOf TBVC states NERFINISHED
apartheid system in South Africa
reasonForCreation policy of separate development in apartheid South Africa
recognizedBy Bophuthatswana NERFINISHED
Ciskei NERFINISHED
South Africa NERFINISHED
Venda NERFINISHED
reincorporatedInto South Africa NERFINISHED
usedPassportIssuedBy South Africa NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Republic of Transkei
Description of subject: The Republic of Transkei was a nominally independent Bantustan created by apartheid-era South Africa for Xhosa-speaking people, internationally unrecognized and re-incorporated into South Africa in 1994.

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Transkei alternativeName Republic of Transkei