Tswanaland

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Tswanaland was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Tswana people. A centrally administered local government was created in 1980.

Tswanaland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.

[edit] See also

• Apartheid
• Leaders of Tswanaland
• Bophuthatswana

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