Bantustan

American

[ban-too-stan] / ˈbæn tuˌstæn /

noun

homeland.

Bantustan British

/ ˈbɑːntʊˌstɑːn, ˌbæntʊˈstɑːn /

noun

Official name: homeland. (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993

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His political clout would be forged in the KwaZulu "Bantustan" one of the so-called self-governing homelands based on tribal affiliation - islands of rural poverty where most Black South Africans were literally confined under apartheid.

From Reuters

During apartheid, he was the chief minister of the KwaZulu Bantustan: a semi-independent territory allocated to the Zulu people by the country's white supremacist government.

From BBC

But the king did appear to reach an accommodation with the apartheid government who recognised him as a figurehead in the Zulu bantustan.

From BBC

“And it will solidify not the creation of a Palestinian state, but the completion of a Palestinian Bantustan, an archipelago of disconnected islands of territory, completely surrounded and divided up by Israel and unconnected to the outside world.”

From Washington Post

Such a move would violate international law and leave what would amount to "a Palestinian Bantustan", they warned.

From BBC

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