Gazankulu

/ ˌɡazaŋˈkuːluː /

noun

1. (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1993. Capital: Giyani

Example Sentences

There’s mockery and disdain behind the jaunty beat and the major-key, Shangaan-style accordion chords of “Paradise in Gazankulu,” the title song of Belafonte’s last studio album; he recorded part of it in Johannesburg.

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Under apartheid — which Belafonte determinedly worked to end — Gazankulu was a so-called “homeland” created to segregate Black South Africans.

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The proper homelands, Venda and Gazankulu and Transkei, were places where black people actually lived, and the government drew a border around them and said, “Stay there.”

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They lived in Tzaneen, a town in Gazankulu, what had been the Tsonga homeland under apartheid.

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My mother came from Gazankulu, the tribal reserve for the Tsongas in the Northeastern Transvaal.

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