Bushmanland (South West Africa)

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). Despite this, a government was not established in the region. The bantustan, then called 'homelands' by the South African authorities, was established with the issue of Proclamation 208 in 1976. [1]

Bushmanland
Boesmanland
Buschmannland
1976–1989
Flag
Location of Bushmanland (green) within South West Africa (grey).
Map of the bantustan.
StatusBantustan
CapitalTsumkwe (Tjumǃkui)
Common languagesKhoisan
English
Afrikaans
German
History 
 Establishment
1976
 Re-integrated into Namibia
May 1989
CurrencySouth African rand
Preceded by
Succeeded by
South West Africa
Namibia
Allocation of Land to bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. Bushmanland is in the north-east.

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

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