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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former autonomous black homeland of northern South Africa. It was granted nominal independence in December 1977 and was dissolved and reintegrated into South Africa under the 1994 constitution.
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Commission of Inquiry into the incidents that led to violence in the territory which was once called Bophuthatswana on 11 March 1994, and the loss of life that occurred as a result of that violence.
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West province, formerly known as the Bophuthatswana homeland during apartheid rule, from December 20 to January 2 was about
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Bophuthatswana, which is in the Freedom Alliance with the Inkatha
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Sun Air -- formerly known as the Bophuthatswana government-owned airline Bop Air -- successfully applied for reinstatement of its temporary Air Services licence on Thursday night and accused rival Comair of trying to prevent competition.
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Bophuthatswana, which is in the Freedom Alliance with the Inkatha
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"By this independence your government condemned our people to landlessness, hunger, poverty, malnutrition and unemployment ... yet your government and that of your surrogates in the so-called Bophuthatswana claim that it is the most prosperous of all the homelands, and hold it as a model of the success of the homeland system," the memorandum said.
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The courts were still functionary, in terms of the old Acts, in former homelands such as Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu, Moerane said.
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Bophuthatswana which is a major source of the precious metal, dealers said.
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Parties such as Bophuthatswana and Ciskei are, however, insisting that all draft legislation for the interim period be finalised before the special Parliamentary session.
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Africa including areas such as Bophuthatswana are a result of the apartheid policies hatched by his masters in Pretoria.
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