Bushmanland (South West Africa) Explained

Native Name:Boesmanland
Buschmannland
Conventional Long Name:Bushmanland
Common Name:Bushmanland
Status:Bantustan
P1:South West Africa
Flag P1:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg
S1:Namibia
Flag S1:Flag of Namibia.svg
Image Map Caption:Location of Bushmanland (green) within South West Africa (grey).
Image Map2:MapBantoustanBushmanland.PNG
Image Map2 Caption:Map of the bantustan.
Common Languages:Khoisan
English
Afrikaans
German
Event Start:Establishment
Year Start:1976
Event End:Re-integrated into Namibia
Year End:1989
Date End:May
Currency:South African rand

Bushmanland (Afrikaans: Boesmanland) was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the San people (the Bushmen).

Administrative history

Bushmanland was established by the South African authorities with the issue of Proclamation 208 in 1976.[1]

No government or second-tier authority was established for the San Bushmen as it was believed that "they had evinced no interest in having a governing authority".[2] Instead a Bushman Advisory Council was established in 1986.[3]

Bushmanland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was replaced by a system of non-geographic ethnic-based administrations in 1980, which were in turn abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.

See also

References

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Welch, Cameron. The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia: The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia. 28. African Books Collective. 2018. 978-3906927039.
  2. A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1980. South African Institute of Race Relations. 1981. p. 648.
  3. Web site: Namibian Homelands .