Definitions

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  • noun Any of ten former territories defined as homelands for black South Africans

Etymologies

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From bantu (meaning "people" in some of the Bantu languages) and -stan.

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Examples

  • The Azanian People's Organisation on Wednesday urged blacks to continue their "revolutionary campaigns against the remaining dummy structures and puppets in the so-called bantustan and tricameral administrations".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The Azanian People's Organisation on Wednesday urged blacks to continue their "revolutionary campaigns against the remaining dummy structures and puppets in the so-called bantustan and tricameral administrations".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The Azanian People's Organisation on Wednesday urged blacks to continue their "revolutionary campaigns against the remaining dummy structures and puppets in the so-called bantustan and tricameral administrations".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Although the ANC rejects the notion of bantustan governments attending the planning conference, the movement's deputy president, Mr Walter Sisulu, and an ANC delegation met its remaining PF allies on Monday and agreed to promote the participation of traditional leaders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • It is also a warning to those who collaborate with the racist regime, especially the so-called bantustan leaders who are acting in collusion with the Vorster regime to deprive the

    SELECTED STATEMENTS AND OTHER PRESS RELEASES, 1963-1983 1983

  • Lastly, the regime divides the population according to tribal origins under the system notoriously known as the bantustan programme.

    RACISM IN ISOLATION 1980

  • No government, country or nation in the world, genuinely opposed to apartheid, racism and colonialism, could at any time lend support to the bantustan programme in general and to the idea of bantustan "independence" in particular.

    APARTHEID AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 1980

  • In this context, the idea of bantustan independence is an outrage in Africa.

    APARTHEID AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 1980

  • No government, country or nation in the world, genuinely opposed to apartheid, racism and colonialism, could at any time lend support to the bantustan programme in general and to the idea of bantustan "independence" in particular.

    SUPPORT OUR PEOPLE UNTIL POWER IS RESTORED TO THEM 1976

  • In this context, the idea of bantustan independence is an outrage in Africa.

    SUPPORT OUR PEOPLE UNTIL POWER IS RESTORED TO THEM 1976

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