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This is as civil servants, students, and communities were demonstrating their unhappiness, after the leader of the erstwhile Bophuthatswana homeland, Kgosi Lucas Mangope, announced that the homeland will not take part in the first democratic elections in 1994.

“We rejected homeland system. We said no, we are going to the elections whether Bop leaders want or not. We agreed as workers in Bophuthatswana to form what we called crisis committee which included all the departments including the security forces.”“The Apartheid system and Bantustan education system that time by OTS nature and content was training us to be passive participants in the economy.

“Today we are commemorating only 30 years of what happened in this area. So, if you look at how we have been oppressed as a country and as a nation and you look at what is happening now, you will begin to understand that policies and systems are being put in place so that we must be able to correctly answer that question that you are posing.”

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