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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

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Wikidata facts

Country
Namibia
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inception
1970-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1989-05-00
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Article · Español

Hererolandia​ fue un bantustán situado en África del Sudoeste (actual Namibia), destinado por el gobierno sudafricano del apartheid para constituir una patria (homeland) que albergaría a los miembros de la etnia herero.

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