Tswanaland

thumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Tswanaland is the rectangle in eastern central South West Africa.

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name: Tswanaland
Country.common_name: Tswanaland
Country.status: BantustanSecond-tier authority (1980–1989)
Country.p1: South West Africa
Country.s1: Namibia
Country.flag_s1: Flag of Namibia.svg
Country.image_map_caption: Location of The Bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey).
Country.image_map2: MapBantoustanTswanaland.PNG
Country.image_map2_caption: Map of the Bantustan
Country.year_start: 1980
Country.event_end: Re-integrated into Namibia
Country.year_end: 1989

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Contents

Administrative history
Bantustan
Representative authority (1980–1989)
Transition to independence (1989–1990)
Leadership
Gallery
See also
References

thumb|300px|Allocation of land to Bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Tswanaland is the rectangle in eastern central South West Africa.

Tswanaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Tswanas, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), in the far central eastern area of the territory around the village of Aminuis. It was intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Tswana people.