Bantustan system

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The Bantustan system was a network of nominally self-governing, ethnically defined territories used by apartheid-era South Africa to segregate Black Africans and deny them full citizenship rights.

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Bantustan system canonical 3
Bantustans 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf component of apartheid
policy of racial segregation
territorial segregation system
abolishedIn 1994
appliedIn South West Africa
characteristic denationalization of Black Africans
economic dependence on South Africa
ethnically defined territories
fragmented, non-contiguous territories
limited political autonomy
nominal self-government
condemnedAs tool of racial domination
violation of human rights
country South Africa
createdTerritoriesFor Black African ethnic groups
describedAs grand apartheid
homelands policy
endTime early 1990s
ideology apartheid
separate development
implementedBy National Party government of South Africa
includedTerritory Bophuthatswana
Ciskei
Gazankulu
KaNgwane
KwaNdebele
KwaZulu
linked to: KwaZulu homeland

Lebowa
Ovamboland
QwaQwa
Transkei
Venda
internationalRecognitionOfHomelands none outside South Africa and its allies
involvedPolicy forced removals
influx control
pass laws
legacy spatial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
underdevelopment of former homelands
legalBasis Bantu Authorities Act, 1951
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970
Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, 1959
nominallyIndependentHomeland Bophuthatswana
Ciskei
Transkei
Venda
opposedBy African National Congress
Pan Africanist Congress
United Nations
purpose deny Black Africans full South African citizenship
maintain white minority rule
segregate Black Africans from white population
repealedBy interim Constitution of South Africa, 1993
resultedIn concentration of poverty in homelands
creation of nominally independent states
labor migration to white-controlled areas
loss of South African citizenship for many Black Africans
political disenfranchisement of Black majority
significantExpansion 1960s
startTime late 1950s

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Bantu Authorities Act policyInstrumentFor Bantustan system
Sabata Dalindyebo opposed Bantustan system
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act relatedTo Bantustans
linked to: Bantustan system
Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act created Bantustans
linked to: Bantustan system