Bushmanland_(South-West_Africa)

Bushmanland (South West Africa)

Bushmanland (South West Africa)

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Bushmanland (Afrikaans: Boesmanland) was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the San people (the Bushmen).

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Allocation of Land to bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Bushmanland is in the north-east.

Administrative history

Bushmanland was established by the South African authorities with the issue of Proclamation 208 in 1976.[1]

No government or second-tier authority was established for the San Bushmen as it was believed that "they had evinced no interest in having a governing authority".[2] Instead a Bushman Advisory Council was established in 1986.[3]

Bushmanland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was replaced by a system of non-geographic ethnic-based administrations in 1980, which were in turn abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Welch, Cameron (2018). The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia: The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia. African Books Collective. p. 28. ISBN 978-3906927039.
  2. [2]
    A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1980. South African Institute of Race Relations. 1981. p. 648.
  3. [3]
    "Namibian Homelands".

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