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| Ndebele | |
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| Person | iNdebele |
| People | AmaNdebele |
| Language | IsiNdebele |
| Country | KwaNdebele |
KwaNdebele | |||||||||
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| 1981–1994 | |||||||||
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 Location of KwaNdebele (red) within South Africa (yellow). | |||||||||
| Status | Bantustan | ||||||||
| Capital | KwaMhlanga | ||||||||
| Common languages | isiNdebele (Southern Ndebele) Northern Ndebele(siNdrebele) Sepedi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Self-government | 1 April 1981 | ||||||||
• Re-integrated into South Africa | 27 April 1994 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1980[1] | 1,970 km2 (760 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1980[1] | 156,380 | ||||||||
• 1991[2] | 404,246 | ||||||||
| Currency | South African rand | ||||||||
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KwaNdebele was a bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government as a semi-independent homeland for the Ndebele people. The homeland was created when the South African government purchased nineteen white-owned farms and installed a government.[3]
- ^ Sally Frankental; Owen Sichone (2005). South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. ABC-CLIO. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-57607-674-3.
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RSAdistwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Nielsen, Derrick (11 March 1996). ""Bringing together that which belongs together": The establishment of KwaNdebele and the incorporation of Moutse". hdl:10539/9359. Retrieved 10 January 2024.