Ovamboland
Sign in to saveOvamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Ovamboland
- Country.common_name
- Ovamboland
- 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 Ovamboland.svg
- Country.image_map
- LocationBantoustanOvamboland.PNG
- Country.image_map_caption
- Location of Ovamboland within South West Africa.
- Country.image_map2
- MapBantoustanOvamboland.PNG
- Country.image_map2_caption
- Map of the Bantustan
- Country.capital
- Oshakati
- Country.event_start
- Odendaal Plan
- Country.year_start
- 1968
- Country.event_end
- Re-integrated into Namibia
- Country.year_end
- 1989
- Country.date_end
- May
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Background
- Finnish missionary work
- Administrative history
- Bantustan (1968–1980)
- Representative authority (1980–1989)
- Since independence of Namibia
- Leadership
- See also
- References
- External links
Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
The apartheid government stated that the goal was for it to be a self-governing homeland for the Ovambo people. Practically, however, it was intended by the apartheid government as a reservation that forced them into cheap labour by limiting movement; Ovambo men were not allowed outside Ovamboland unless they signed as a contract labourer for 16 months, while women were not allowed out at all.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ovamboland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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