Hereroland
Sign in to saveHereroland 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bantustan of South West Africa
- 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 sectionsContents
- 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.