Bushmanland (South West Africa)

Bushmanland Boesmanland Buschmannland
1976–1989
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Location of Bushmanland (green) within South West Africa (grey).
Map of the bantustan.
Status	Bantustan
Capital	Tsumkwe (Tjumǃkui)
Common languages	Khoisan English Afrikaans German
History
• Establishment	1976
• Re-integrated into Namibia	May 1989
Currency	South 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 (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).

Administrative history

Bushmanland was established by the South African authorities with the issue of Proclamation 208 in 1976.[1]

No government or second-tier authority was established for the San Bushmen as it was believed that "they had evinced no interest in having a governing authority".[2] Instead a Bushman Advisory Council was established in 1986.[3]

Bushmanland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was replaced by a system of non-geographic ethnic-based administrations in 1980, which were in turn abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.

See also

• Bushmanland (South Africa)
• Apartheid

References

1. Welch, Cameron (2018). The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia: The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia. African Books Collective. p. 28. ISBN 978-3906927039.
2. A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1980. South African Institute of Race Relations. 1981. p. 648.
3. "Namibian Homelands".

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