![]() ![]() Note: Although all ‘homelands’ were re-incorporated into South Africa in 1994, the word is still sometimes used of any area which was formerly independent or semi-autonomous. These ‘states’ were recognized by few foreign governments. Note: The creation of ten ethnic ‘homelands’ was the main feature of grand apartheid Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei later became ‘independent’ states, funded by South Africa, before the policy was abandoned Gazankulu, KaNgwane, KwaNdebele, KwaZulu, Lebowa, and Qwaqwa had, for a time, a certain local autonomy within South Africa. See also city state, self-governing, reserve, separate development, territorial authority, tribal authority. Also attributive, and transferred sense, denoting any similar ethnically-based region. Bantustan definition: (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people. Any of ten quasi-autonomous regions - one for each of the officially recognized black peoples of South Africa - which, during the apartheid era, became or were intended to become self-governing (or ‘independent’) states, and which for a time were the only areas in which blacks born in South Africa were legally entitled to claim citizenship and permanent residence bantustan sense 2 national state sense 1 stan (see noun at -stan suffix) cf.
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