Hereroland

Hereroland was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Hereros, in South West Africa (present day Namibia), intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Herero people.

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name: Hereroland
Country.common_name: Hereroland
Country.status: Bantustan (1968–1980)Second-tier authority (1989–1989)
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_map_caption: Location of Bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey)
Country.image_map2_caption: Map of the Bantustan
Country.capital: Okakarara
Country.year_start: 1968
Country.event_end: Re-integrated into Namibia
Country.year_end: 1989
Country.date_end: May
Country.currency: South African rand
Ethnonym.root: Herero
Ethnonym.person: OmuHerero
Ethnonym.people: OvaHerero

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inception: 1970-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1989-05-00

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Contents

Geography
Background
German colonialism
South African control
Administrative history
Bantustan (1968–1980)
Representative authority (1980–1989)
The Turnhalle Constitutional Conference and the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance
South African General Administrator
Fight for liberation and transition to independence
Leaders of Hereroland
Hosea Kutako
Clemens Kapuuo
Kuaima Riruako
Thimoteus Tjamuaha
Erastus Tjejamba
Gottlob Mbaukua
Reparations for the Herero and Nama genocide
See also
References

== Geography == Hereroland can be found in present-day eastern Namibia and encompassed parts of the Kalahari Desert. The Bantustan was located under Bushmanland and bordered Botswana to the east.