Bantustan

Ban·tu·stan

 (băn′to͞o-stăn′)

n.

1. Any of the homelands formerly established for blacks in South Africa by the government during the apartheid era.

2. A landlocked, often fragmented ethnic enclave within a larger state, nominally possessing some degree of autonomy but usually economically dependent and lacking real power.

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

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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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home•land

(ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd)

n.

1. one's native land.

2. a region created or considered as a state by or for a particular ethnic group: the Palestinian homeland.

3. any of the racially and ethnically based regions created in South Africa by the government as nominally independent tribal states.

[1660–70]

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