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Transkei National Independence Party

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The Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) was a political party in the nominally independent South African Xhosa bantustanofTranskei. It was founded by the Matanzima brothers, Kaiser and George. The party advocated cooperation with the South African government. As of 1985, the leader of the party was George Matanzima. The party governed Transkei from 1976 until the 1987 coup d'étatbyBantu Holomisa.

Electoral history[edit]

1973: TNIP won 25 out of 43 elected seats (a further 64 seats were filled by chiefs appointed ex-officio by the government)^[1]
1976: TNIP won 69 out of 75 seats^[1]
1981: TNIP won 74 out of 75 seats^[2]
1986: TNIP won 57 out of 75 seats^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Jacqueline Audrey Kalley; Elna E. Schoeman; Lydia Eve Andor (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 396, 419. ISBN 9780313302473.

^ Hela Världen i Fakta '86 (World of Facts '86). Stockholm, Sweden: Bonnier Group. 1985. p. 257.

^ Elections in South Africa's Apartheid-Era Homelands "Bantustans" African Elections Database

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