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    A Bantustan (also known as a Bantu homeland, a black homeland, a black state or simply known as a homeland; Afrikaans: Bantoestan) was a territory that...
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    homelands created in apartheid-era South Africa, and are thus referred to as bantustans. They have been referred to figuratively as the Palestinian archipelago...
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    known for being the former capital of the bantustan of Venda. Thohoyandou became the capital of the former bantustan of Venda, while Dzanani is the traditional...
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    Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland", an area set aside for members of a specific...
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    Ovamboland (category Bantustans in South West Africa)
    Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority...
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    Damaraland (category Bantustans in South West Africa)
    was chosen for a bantustan, intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Damara people. The bantustan Damaraland was...
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    Venda (category Bantustans in South Africa)
    (Venda: Riphabuliki ya Venḓa; Afrikaans: Republiek van Venda), was a Bantustan in northern South Africa. It was fairly close to the South African border...
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    revived in the 1970s by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu bantustan. In December 1951, Solomon's son Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon was officially...
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    self-rule. These bantustans were replaced with separate ethnicity based second-tier representative authorities in 1980. Bantustans in South West Africa...
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    Namaland (category Bantustans in South West Africa)
    Namaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Namas, the in South West...
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    QwaQwa (category Bantustans in South Africa)
    QwaQwa was a bantustan ("homeland") in the central eastern part of South Africa. It encompassed a very small region of 655 square kilometres (253 sq mi)...
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    Gazankulu was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for the Tsonga people. It was located...
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    inhabited by the black African population of Natal were organized into the bantustan of KwaZulu, which was progressively separated from the province, becoming...
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    independent country of Lesotho to the south west. The town was capital of the bantustan, or homeland, of QwaQwa. When apartheid ended, the town became part of...
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    Vhembe consists of all the territories that were part of the former Venda Bantustan; however, two large densely populated districts of the former Tsonga homeland...
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  • List of chief ministers of QwaQwa (category Chief ministers of South African bantustans)
    apartheid era Bantustan of QwaQwa, also known as the Basotho ba Borwa. Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office. Bantustan President of...
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  • This article lists elections for legislative or quasi-legislative bodies in South Africa. 15 September 1910 20 October 1915 20 March 1920 8 February 1921...
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  • Leaders of East Caprivi (category Leaders of bantustans in South West Africa)
    East Caprivi was a Bantustan or "homeland" and later a second-tier authority in South West Africa during the apartheid period. DTA - Democratic Turnhalle...
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    (uMkhonto we Sizwe and Azanian People's Liberation Army), and the former Bantustan defence forces. The SANDF is subdivided into four branches, the South...
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    South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province. It is located...
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    the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, known as Bantustans, were reintegrated into the country, and the four provinces were increased...
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    Tswanaland (category Bantustans in South West Africa)
    Tswanaland was a bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Tswanas, in South West...
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    region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994. It was, along with Ciskei, a Bantustan for the Xhosa people, and operated as a nominally independent parliamentary...
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  • Leaders of Tswanaland (category Leaders of bantustans in South West Africa)
    Tswanaland was a Bantustan or "homeland" and later a second-tier authority in South West Africa for the Tswana people during the apartheid period. DTA...
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    black population to ten designated "tribal homelands", also known as bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government announced...
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    Skeleton Coast A map from 1964 to 1965 showing the Namibian "homelands" or Bantustans when Namibia was under the rule of apartheid South Africa. Shipwreck of...
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    South Africa's most populous languages. The pre-1994 apartheid system of Bantustan assigned them to have self-governing "homelands" (native reserves), namely;...
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    Rand Rebellion Great Depression 1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike Bantustans Apartheid 1948 general election Apartheid legislation Pass laws Internal...
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    East Caprivi (category Bantustans in South West Africa)
    East Caprivi or Itenge was a bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Caprivis in...
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  • Dynamics Auto-segregation Balkanization Ethnic cleansing Ethnic federalism Bantustan Ethnopluralism Ethnocracy Exclusionary zoning Forced migration Internment...
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