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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Predicate Object
instanceOf component of apartheid
policy of racial segregation
territorial segregation system
abolishedIn 1994
appliedIn South West Africa NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
includedTerritory Bophuthatswana NERFINISHED
Ciskei NERFINISHED
Gazankulu NERFINISHED
KaNgwane NERFINISHED
KwaNdebele NERFINISHED
KwaZulu NERFINISHED
Lebowa NERFINISHED
Ovamboland NERFINISHED
QwaQwa NERFINISHED
Transkei NERFINISHED
Venda NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 NERFINISHED
Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, 1959 NERFINISHED
nominallyIndependentHomeland Bophuthatswana NERFINISHED
Ciskei NERFINISHED
Transkei NERFINISHED
Venda NERFINISHED
opposedBy African National Congress NERFINISHED
Pan Africanist Congress NERFINISHED
United Nations NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
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