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Kavangoland

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thumb|200px|Allocation of land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Kavangoland is in the top center.

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name
Kavangoland
Country.common_name
Kavangoland
Country.status
Bantustan (1968–1980)Second-tier authority (1980–1989)
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_flag
Flag of Kavanangoland.svg
Country.image_coat
File:Kavangoland embl.jpg
Country.symbol_type
Coat of arms
Country.image_map_caption
Location of the Bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey)
Country.image_map2
MapBantoustanKavangoland.PNG
Country.image_map2_caption
Map of the Bantustan
Country.year_start
1970
Country.event_end
Re-integrated into Namibia
Country.year_end
1989
Country.date_end
May
Country.currency
South African rand

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Administrative history
  • Bantustan (1968–1980)
  • Representative authority (1980–1989)
  • Transition to independence (1989–1990)
  • Leadership
  • References
  • See also

thumb|200px|Allocation of land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Kavangoland is in the top center.

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

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

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