Editing Politics of South Africa (section)

==Notable politicians==
Many leaders of former [[bantustan]]s or homelands have had a role in South African politics since their abolition.

[[Mangosuthu Buthelezi]] was chief minister of his [[KwaZulu|Kwa-Zulu]] homeland from 1976 until 1994. In [[post-apartheid South Africa]] he has served as President of the Inkatha Freedom Party.
He was a Minister in President Mandela's cabinet. He also served as acting President of South Africa when President Nelson Mandela was overseas.

[[Bantubonke Holomisa]], who was a general in the homeland of [[Transkei]] from 1987, has served as the president of the [[United Democratic Movement]] since 1997. Today he is a Member of Parliament.

General [[Constand Viljoen]] was a former chief of the [[South African Defence Force]], who, as a leader of the [[Afrikaner Volksfront]], sent 1500<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waldmeir |first1=Patti |title=Anatomy of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa |date=1998 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-2582-2 |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2IHKD-FY8YgC&pg=PA232 |language=en}}</ref> of his militiamen to prop up the government of [[Lucas Mangope]] and to contest the termination of [[Bophuthatswana]] as a homeland in 1994.  He co-founded the [[Freedom Front Plus|Freedom Front]] in 1994. He retired from being a Member of Parliament before his death in 2020.

[[Lucas Mangope]], former<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02426/05lv02560.htm|title=Mangope, Lucas Manyane - The O'Malley Archives|website=www.nelsonmandela.org|access-date=2016-09-11}}</ref> chief of the Motsweda Ba hurutshe-Boo-Manyane tribe of the [[Tswana people|Tswana]], ex-president of the former bantustan of [[Bophuthatswana]], was the leader of the [[United Christian Democratic Party]].