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 | Southern Ndebele Northern Ndebele Sepedi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Self-government | 1 April 1981 | ||||||||
• Re-integrated into South Africa | 27 April 1994 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1980 | 1,970 km2 (760 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1980 | 156,380 | ||||||||
• 1991 | 404,246 | ||||||||
| Currency | South African rand | ||||||||
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| Ndebele | |
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| Person | iNdebele |
| People | AmaNdebele |
| Language | IsiNdebele |
| Country | KwaNdebele |
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.