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Hereroland was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Hereros, in South West Africa (present day Namibia), intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Herero people.

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name
Hereroland
Country.common_name
Hereroland
Country.status
Bantustan (1968–1980)Second-tier authority (1989–1989)
Country.p1
South West Africa
Country.flag_p1
Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg
Country.s1
Namibia
Country.flag_s1
Flag of Namibia.svg
Country.image_map_caption
Location of Bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey)
Country.image_map2_caption
Map of the Bantustan
Country.capital
Okakarara
Country.year_start
1968
Country.event_end
Re-integrated into Namibia
Country.year_end
1989
Country.date_end
May
Country.currency
South African rand
Ethnonym.root
Herero
Ethnonym.person
OmuHerero
Ethnonym.people
OvaHerero

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Country
Namibia
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inception
1970-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1989-05-00
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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • Background
  • German colonialism
  • South African control
  • Administrative history
  • Bantustan (1968–1980)
  • Representative authority (1980–1989)
  • The Turnhalle Constitutional Conference and the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance
  • South African General Administrator
  • Fight for liberation and transition to independence
  • Leaders of Hereroland
  • Hosea Kutako
  • Clemens Kapuuo
  • Kuaima Riruako
  • Thimoteus Tjamuaha
  • Erastus Tjejamba
  • Gottlob Mbaukua
  • Reparations for the Herero and Nama genocide
  • See also
  • References

Hereroland was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Hereros, in South West Africa (present day Namibia), intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Herero people.

== Geography == Hereroland can be found in present-day eastern Namibia and encompassed parts of the Kalahari Desert. The Bantustan was located under Bushmanland and bordered Botswana to the east.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hereroland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.