Hello all,
As you know, South Africa unilaterally declared several of its homelands
independent from 1976 until the 1980s, though these were reabsorbed in
1994. I knew that 4 had been made independent: Bophuthatswana, Transkei,
Ciskei and Venda.
I recently read somewhere that a fifth had been too... but was stupid
enough not to follow up on this reference, that i have now lost. Can anyone
confirm if a 5th homeland was made independent, which it was, and when?
Thanks
Brendan Whyte
Geography Dept
University of Melbourne
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