Bantustan

[ban-too-stan]

noun

1. homeland.

Bantustan

/ ˈbɑːntʊˌstɑːn, ˌbæntʊˈstɑːn /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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

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“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.”

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

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