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).
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.