Namaland
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans (orange) according to the Odendaal Plan. The protected areas and national parks are grey, the white-administered Police Zone is green. Namaland is the homeland in the South.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Namaland
- Country.common_name
- Namaland
- Country.status
- BantustanSecond-tier authority
- 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
- LocationBantoustanNamaland.PNG
- Country.image_map_caption
- Location of the Bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey)
- Country.image_map2_caption
- Map of the Bantustan
- Country.capital
- Keetmanshoop
- Country.year_start
- 1980
- Country.event_end
- Re-integrated into Namibia
- Country.year_end
- 1989
- Country.date_end
- May
- Country.currency
- South African rand
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- Administrative history
- Bantustan
- Representative authority (1980–1989)
- Transition to independence (1989–1990)
- Leadership
- See also
- References
thumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans (orange) according to the Odendaal Plan. The protected areas and national parks are grey, the white-administered Police Zone is green. Namaland is the homeland in the South.
Namaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Namas, the in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Nama people. Namaland comprised an area of and was to accommodate the estimated 34,806 southern Namas of the South West African territory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Namaland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.