Bantustan Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...the ability to run casinos, as gambling was forbidden in South Africa. In reality, Bantustans were vast slum areas without industry or fertile soil for agriculture. The majority of their populations depended on jobs in South Africa (e.g. 65 per cent of the working population in Bophuthatswana), while most of their governments' income depended on direct transfer payments from the South African government (e.g. 80 per cent in Transkei, 1985 ). The ‘independent’ bantustans were reintegrated into South Africa in 1994 , sometimes, as in the case of...
Bantustan Quick reference
New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Abadan , Abidjan, adhan, Amman, Antoine, Arne, Aswan, Avon, Azerbaijan, Baltistan, Baluchistan, Bantustan, barn, Bhutan, Dagestan, darn, dewan, Farne, guan, Hahn, Hanuman, Hindustan, Huascarán, Iban, Iran, Isfahan, Juan, Kazakhstan, khan, Koran, Kurdistan, Kurgan, Kyrgyzstan, macédoine, Mahon, maidan, Marne, Michoacán, Oman, Pakistan, pan, Pathan, Qumran, Rajasthan, Shan, Siân, Sichuan, skarn, soutane, Sudan, Tai'an, t'ai chi ch'uan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Taklimakan, tarn, Tatarstan, Tehran, Tenochtitlán, Turkestan, Turkmenistan, tzigane, Uzbekistan,...
Bantustan Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
...approximately a third of South Africa's total black population, were ‘self-governing’ but non-independent: Gazankulu, KwaZulu, Lebowa, KwaNdebele, KaNgwane and Qwaqwa. Since 1994 all the Bantustans have rejoined the ‘new’ South Africa under the democratically elected black-majority government led by the African National Congress. Bantustan meant ‘Bantu country’, just as Hindustan means ‘Hindu...
Bantustan
Ciskei
consolidation
Transkei
Bophuthatswana
KwaZulu-Natal
Nguni
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Inkatha Freedom Party
African National Congress
apartheid
Ciskei Reference library
Encyclopedia of Africa
...jobs outside the bantustan. No other country besides South Africa recognized Ciskei’s independence, since recognition would have implied acceptance of the policy of apartheid. More than two million people were officially Ciskei citizens, but about three-quarters of them lived outside Ciskei in other parts of South Africa. Few black people supported the bantustan system because it meant they were considered primarily citizens of the bantustans instead of citizens of South Africa, even if they had never lived in the bantustans. When a bantustan chose to become...
Transkei Reference library
Encyclopedia of Africa
...outside its borders. The lack of economic opportunities within the bantustans forced many blacks to live outside the bantustans as migrant laborers or to commute from border towns within the bantustans to work in white-run industries in other parts of South Africa. Few black people supported the bantustan system because it meant they were considered primarily citizens of the bantustans instead of citizens of South Africa, even if they had never lived within the bantustans. When a bantustan chose to become independent, its citizens lost their South African...
