"After Thornhill" a resettlement plan for Ciskeian Immigrants ex Herschel and Glen Grey districts

Abstract

With the excision of the Herschel and Glen Grey Districts from the Ciskeian Homeland and their incorporation into the Transkei, approximately 5 000 families, comprising between 25 000 to 30 000 people, abandoned their former homes and lands in the two districts and together with their livestock and household possessions fled to the Hewu District of the Ciskei.