Siyabuswa is a town in the countryside of the South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n province of Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...

 (a region formerly called Eastern Transvaal). During the apartheid era

Era

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, Siyabuswa was the capital of the KwaNdebele

KwaNdebele

KwaNdebele was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a semi-independent homeland for the Ndebele people. The homeland was created when the South African government purchased nineteen white-owned farms and installed a government....

 Bantustan

Bantustan

A bantustan was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa , as part of the policy of apartheid...

. It served as a capital from 1981 to 1986 when KwaMhlanga

KwaMhlanga

KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is the spiritual home of the amaNdebele tribe that settled there in the early 18th century....

 replaced it. Most of its inhabitants (Population in 1996 : 29 811) are members of the Ndebele ethnic group

Ethnic group

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. The town is about 20 kilometers southwest of the Marble Hall

Marble Hall

Marble Hall is a small town in the south of the Limpopo province, in South Africa. It was formerley in Mpumalanga provinse.-History:While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920...

 airport

Airport

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. Currently Siyabuswa is home to several ethnic groups, namely the Ndebele people, the Pedi people and the Sotho

Sotho

Sotho may refer to:*The Sotho people , an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa and Lesotho.*The Sotho language , a Bantu Language spoken in southern Africa, an official language of both South Africa and Lesotho.*The Northern Sotho language , a group of related Bantu dialects...

 people.

See also

• KwaMhlanga
  KwaMhlanga
  KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is the spiritual home of the amaNdebele tribe that settled there in the early 18th century....
  
  
• Marble Hall
  Marble Hall
  Marble Hall is a small town in the south of the Limpopo province, in South Africa. It was formerley in Mpumalanga provinse.-History:While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920...
  
  
• Vaalbank
  Vaalbank
  Vaalbank is a small town some 102 kilometers northeast of Pretoria. The town is an important one in Mpumalanga's northwestern end where the majority of the surrounding population is rural and does not have infrastructure...