Namaland
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans (orange) according to the Odendaal Plan. The protected areas and national parks are grey, the white-administered Police Zone is green. Namaland is the homeland in the South.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Namaland
- Country.common_name
- Namaland
- Country.status
- BantustanSecond-tier authority
- 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
- LocationBantoustanNamaland.PNG
- Country.image_map_caption
- Location of the Bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey)
- Country.image_map2_caption
- Map of the Bantustan
- Country.capital
- Keetmanshoop
- Country.year_start
- 1980
- Country.event_end
- Re-integrated into Namibia
- Country.year_end
- 1989
- Country.date_end
- May
- Country.currency
- South African rand
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Inception
- 1980
- Dissolved
- May 1989
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bantustan of South West Africa
- Named after
- Nama people
- Country
- Namibia
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- Administrative history
- Bantustan
- Representative authority (1980–1989)
- Transition to independence (1989–1990)
- Leadership
- See also
- References
thumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans (orange) according to the Odendaal Plan. The protected areas and national parks are grey, the white-administered Police Zone is green. Namaland is the homeland in the South.
Namaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Namas, the in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Nama people. Namaland comprised an area of and was to accommodate the estimated 34,806 southern Namas of the South West African territory.