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Bantustan

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Ban·tu·stan  (bnt-stn)
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Any of the former Black homelands in South Africa.

[From Bantu (on the model of Hindustan).]

Bantustan [ˈbɑːntʊˌstɑːn ˌbæntʊˈstɑːn]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993 Official name homeland


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1) In the 1950s, with legislation such as the 1951 Bantu Authorities Act, the third era began with the Bantustan policies of grand apartheid, wherein the former reserves would become sovereign nation-states.
Message, formulated in this way, equals a kind of restraint, a Bantustan policed from both sides of the fence.
But my vision of future accelerated demands for the democratization of Greater Israel/Palestine-which present Israeli policies undermining the prospects of a settlement based on the indigenous people's acceptance of a bantustan in 22 percent of their homeland may inadvertently be making way for--remains for treatment in another article.
 
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