"uhambise wathi amanina kwihlabathi kufuneka aqinisekise ukuba ayamelwa ziinkokheli zamanina kwimingxili yentlalo eyahlukileyo logama ithatha inxaxheba kwinkqubo yokuthathwa kwezigqibo ezibalulekileyo. “ngamashumi amane eepesenti ekhulwini amanina athatha inxaxheba kwimidlalo yeolimpiki erio de janero ebrazil, lonto ithetha ukuba kuleminyaka engamashumi amabini agqithileyo ngenene ukhona wona umahluko owenzekileyo,” utshilo umlambo--ngcuka." according to cape parliamentary records and the union of south africa and apartheid history, “the thembu leaders demanded, among other things, 4 magistracies with equal access to the cape’s current system of non--racial franchise, and military protection from both the british and their gcaleka enemies. cape prime minister john molteno agreed to these terms and signed them into law with the tembuland annexation act (1876), creating the magisterial districts of xalanga, st. marks, elliot and engcobo. in 1894, the glen gray act constituted the thembu chiefs as leaders of “district councils”, thereby establishing a system of proxy rulers later, in the lead up to the union of south africa and the beginning of apartheid, the franchise and property rights of the thembu were gradually revoked, and what rights remained were applied only in their original homeland. later still, under apartheid, the transkei was turned into a bantustan. in the ethnic theory underpinning apartheid, the transkei was regarded as the “homeland” of the xhosa people. as a result, the thembu people are often misidentified as being xhosa”.