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Separate Black homelands in South Africa whose creation from 1951 formed the cornerstone of apartheid as realized by the National Party and the relentless Verwoerd. They built on the ...

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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)

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2021
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...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...

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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)

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2013
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... • 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,...

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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2011

...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...

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The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

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2005
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Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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2015
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The Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2 ed.)

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2005
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Australian Oxford Dictionary (2 ed.)

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2004
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Separate Black homelands in South Africa whose creation from 1951 formed the cornerstone of apartheid as realized by the National Party and the relentless Verwoerd. They built on the existing ...
Ciskei

Ciskei  

Former bantustan, or Bantu homeland, in South Africa.One of ten territories assigned to the black majority population of South Africa in the 1950s as part of government’s Apartheid policy ...
consolidation

consolidation  

The reform and reorganization of land ownership in order to redress fragmentation. Crecente et al. (2002) Land Use Policy 19, 2 review land consolidation in Galicia, Spain. Ramutsindela (2007) ...
Transkei

Transkei  

Former bantustan, or black homeland, in South Africa, one of ten territories assigned to the black majority population in the 1950s as part of the South African government’s policy of apartheid, or ...
Bophuthatswana

Bophuthatswana  

Former bantustan (black homeland) in South Africa; one of  ten territories assigned to the black majority population in the 1950s as part of the South African government’s policy of apartheid (racial ...
KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal  

Province in southeastern South Africa.KwaZulu-Natal was formed in 1994 by the merger of Natal, one of the four former South African provinces, and KwaZulu, a former bantustan (or black ...
Nguni

Nguni  

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Several groups of ethnically related people in southern Africa. In the 1820s, the Zulu in the Natal area, under their king Shaka, developed a superior military force, made up of regiments (or impis), ...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd  

(b. 8 Sept. 1901, d. 6 Sept. 1966).Prime Minister of South Africa 1958–66Early careerBorn in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), his family migrated to South Africa in 1903. He studied at Stellenbosch, then ...
Inkatha Freedom Party

Inkatha Freedom Party  

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A South African Zulu political organization under the leadership of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The party was founded as the Inkatha movement by Buthelezi in 1975 to counter the Xhosa-dominated ...
African National Congress

African National Congress  

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(ANC) A South African political party. It was established in Bloemfontein in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress by a Zulu Methodist minister, J. W. Dube. In 1914 he led a deputation ...
apartheid

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The former South African policy of racial segregation of other groups from the white inhabitants. Adopted by the successful Afrikaner National Party as a slogan in the 1948 election, apartheid ...
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Encyclopedia of Africa

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2010

...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...

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Encyclopedia of Africa

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2010

...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...

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