bantustan|bantustans in English

noun

reservation for natives in South Africa

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1. The country was divided into administrative zones reminiscent of apartheid South Africa's Bantustans

2. Bophuthatswana was a bantustan (a "homeland") for the Tswana people in South Africa

3. The problem of fragmentation continues to hinder progress in most development work in the bantustans.

4. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans were abolished and reincorporated into South Africa.

5. Bophuthatswana was one of several “homelands” or “Bantustans” set up by the South African government as part of the policy of apartheid

6. Bophuthatswana, former republic (though never internationally recognized as such) and Bantustan that was the legally designated homeland for the Republic of South Africa’s Tswana people.

7. In February 1984 the people of Mogopa had been forcibly removed from their land to the Bophuthatswana bantustan by the apartheid government.

8. Bophuthatswana was one of several "homelands" or "Bantustans" set up by the South African government as part of the policy of apartheid

9. Other articles where Lucas M. Mangope is discussed: Bophuthatswana: …South Africa’s nonindependent Bantustans, with Lucas M. Mangope as chief minister, and was declared an independent republic in December 1977.

10. On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, also known as Bantustans, were reintegrated and the four existing provinces were divided into nine.

11. The Bophuthatswana Defence Force (BDF) was established on 6 December 1977 from trainees of South African Defence Force.It was the defence force of the Republic of Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent bantustan during the Apartheid era of South Africa.

12. Bophuthatswana (/ ˌ b oʊ p uː t ə t ˈ s w ɑː n ə /, meaning "gathering of the Tswana people"), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), was a bantustan ("homeland"; an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity) and nominal parliamentary democracy in the northwestern region of South Africa.

13. Bophuthatswana (/ ˌ b oʊ p uː t ə t ˈ s w ɑː n ə /, meaning "gathering of the Tswana people"), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Riphaboliki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland"; an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity) that was declared (nominally) independent by the apartheid regime of