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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.
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. The Bantustan existed until 29 July 1989, a few months prior to the Independence of Namibia.
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 ...
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.
The 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis was a major political crisis which began after Lucas Mangope, the president of Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent South African bantustan created under apartheid, attempted to crush widespread labour unrest and popular demonstrations demanding the incorporation of the territory into South Africa pending non-racial elections later that year. [7]
QwaQwa was a bantustan ("homeland") in the central eastern part of South Africa.It encompassed a very small region of 655 square kilometres (253 sq mi) in the east of the former South African province of Orange Free State, bordering Lesotho. [3]
Rehoboth area includes the Rehoboth Homeland bantustan which existed until 1989. It is 14,216 square kilometres in area, and has a population of around 35,000. [4]
Over its history, the restaurant expanded to include three dining rooms and remained in the Sokolowski family through three generations. [ 5 ] Sokolowski's University Inn operated in a modified cafeteria style serving Polish and Eastern European specialties such as pierogis , chicken paprikash , and stuffed cabbage .