Transkei

Transkei was a so-called independent tribal land for the Xhosa people within South Africa during the Apartheid era. It was a region on the central Indian Ocean coast of South Africa plus two small enclaves. It was the first of four reservations to be created.


 * In 1976, it issued an independence issue and its first definitives. All stamps were inscribed TRANSKEI with no mention of South Africa whatsoever. The pictorial definitives were issued in perf 12x12½ and perf 14.
 * Transkei's last issue was released in March 1994. The reservation returned to being part of South Africa in April.

