Bantustan
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 • Sep. 9, 2023
“Welcome II the Terrordome,” which acknowledges a Public Enemy opus in its title, is a ferocious rap opera set in a dystopian Bantustan and using a call for revolution delivered by Malcolm X.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Mvezo sits in the poorest of South Africa’s provinces, the Eastern Cape, almost entirely a so-called Bantustan during apartheid.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2013
Today, for example, Damaraland—a Bantustan, or black African homeland in Namibia's northwest—boasts the largest free-ranging population of rhinos in the world.
From BusinessWeek • Dec. 9, 2010
Luck of some sort came when my maternal grandmother—who had been away in the Shangaan Bantustan attending a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits from a raving mad relative—came back unexpectedly.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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