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Bisho
[ bee-shoh ]
noun
- a town in and the capital of Ciskei, SE Africa.
Example Sentences
A nurse at Bisho Hospital, in the more rural Eastern Cape province, said patients were getting just 30 minutes of oxygen at a time because there weren’t enough access points.
Inspired by the success of the mass action campaign, a group within the ANC decided to march on Bisho, the capital of the Ciskei homeland in the eastern Cape, a bantustan led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo.
On the morning of September 7, 1992, seventy thousand protesters set out on a march to Bisho’s main stadium.
Now Bisho joined Boipatong as a byword for brutality.
Like the old proverb that says that the darkest hour is before the dawn, the tragedy of Bisho led to a new opening in the negotiations.
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