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[[File:South_Africa_%26_South_West_Africa_Bantustans_Map.svg|right|thumb|350px|Map of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia). This map shows the bantustans that were present in both territories.
A bantustan was a semi-autonomous territory created by the apartheid government of South Africa, designed to concentrate the Black African population in scattered, isolated areas while allowing the white minority to control the majority of the land. These territories matter historically because they were a central mechanism of racial segregation and control during apartheid, affecting millions of people's lives and rights.
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Creation
- International recognition
- Life in the Bantustans
- Later developments
- Dissolution
- List of Bantustans
- Bantustans in South Africa
- Nominally independent states
- Self-governing entities
- Bantustans in South West Africa
- Homelands
- Representative Authorities
- Homelands (until 1980) / Representative Authorities (1980–1989/1990)
- Usage in non-South African contexts
- Palestinian enclaves
- Other examples
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
right|thumb|350px|Map of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia). This map shows the bantustans that were present in both territories.
Non-bantustan territories
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bantustan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.