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United Nations Security Council Resolution 402, adopted on December 22, 1976, after hearing from the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Lesotho, the Council expressed concern at South Africa's decision to close the border with Lesotho in many areas in an attempt to pressure the country to recognise the "independence" of the bantustan Transkei.
A 1973 CIA map of Bantustans in the Republic of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia).. This article lists the leaders of the TBVC states, the four Bantustans which were declared nominally independent by the government of the Republic of South Africa during the period of apartheid, which lasted from 1948 to 1994.
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 the National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy of apartheid.
Bophuthatswana (/ ˌ b oʊ p uː t ə t ˈ s w ɑː n ə /, lit. ' gathering of the Tswana people '), [4] officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), and colloquially referred to as the Bop and by outsiders as Jigsawland (In reference to its enclave-ridden borders) [5] was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland", an ...
In 1982, the Minister of Defence and then prime minister, G.M. Matazima announced the employment of a group of expatriate advisers from the former Rhodesia.A group of about 30 former Rhodesians had actually commenced employment in March 1981, under the auspices of the Security Services Transkei Company.
Allocation of Land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan.The homeland of Rehoboth is in the centre of the territory. Rehoboth (or Basterland) was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia) intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Baster people in the area around the town of Rehoboth.
Allocation of Land to bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan.Kavangoland is in the top center. Kavangoland was a bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Kavangos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Kavango people.
It borders the province of KwaZulu-Natal to the south east and the 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 the Free State province.