Lebowa

British

/ ləˈbəʊə /

noun

a former Bantu homeland in NE South Africa, consisting of three separate territories with several smaller exclaves: abolished in 1993

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The Swazi bantustan, Lebowa, and Venda were composed of three pieces each; Gazankule, four; the Ciskei, seventeen; Bophuthatswana, nineteen; and KwaZulu, twenty-nine.

From Literature

Apart from BophuthaTswana and Lebowa, which have rich mineral deposits, the rural homelands lack exploitable resources.

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