The most recent Pan Africanist rally in the so-called homeland of Lebowa drew 300.

He was buried in this city of some one million people in the so-called homeland of Ciskei, and 15 miles outside of East London.

As a so-called homeland, it is recognized in law only by its dictatorial rulers and the authorities in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, 90 miles away.

These areas are the so-called homelands established by South Africa as part of its policy of apartheid.

Last year, in the so-called tribal homeland of Ciskei, I covered the emotional funeral of a slain activist, Victoria Mxenge.

Between 1988/89 and 1989/90, there was a further nominal increase in expenditure on all African education departments (including so-called independent homelands) of 20 per cent.

"When they developed the so-called homelands, the idea was to have as many nations as major ethnic groupings."

It was created by the apartheid Government to underwrite the so-called homelands in which black South Africans cans had to take citizenship.

After the end of Apartheid in South Africa in the early 1990s, the so-called homelands were re-integrated into the new South Africa.

It is gaining ground in the so-called black homelands.