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Bantustan|bæntuːˈstɑːn, -æn, ˈbɑːntuːstɑːn|
Also bantustan.
[f. Bantu a. and n. + -stan, terminal element meaning ‘place’ or ‘home’ in various Indo-Aryan languages, after Hindustan, Pakistan, etc.]
An unofficial name for any of the separate homelands set aside for occupation by Black Africans in the Republic of South Africa. Also attrib., designating the policy of establishing separate territories for Black citizens.
1949Round Table June 208 A great Bantu State or group of States to which at least one ingenious thinker has affixed the term ‘Bantustan’. 1951J. D. L. Kruger Bantustan: Study in Pract. Apartheid iv. 19 The proposed area which is contemplated as the non-white State..will be referred to as Bantustan. 1954Observer 20 June 4/5 The ‘Bantustan’ conception of the Nationalist intellectuals and the Dutch Reformed Church..means the absolute division of South Africa into Black and White territories. 1968Economist 20 Apr. 41 The government has found it cannot consolidate the scattered tribal areas into the eight coherent Bantustans which the original scheme envisaged. 1969Reporter (Nairobi) 16 May 14/2 The ‘bantustans’ are to be situated in regions without natural resources. Ibid., Another aspect of South Africa's ‘bantustan’ policy is the undue emphasis on the uniqueness of customs and traditions in individual tribes. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 630/1 The Homelands or Bantustans, as they used to be nicknamed. 1982Drum Mar. 28 Mphephu..believes that a sucker is born everyday—especially in the bantustans. 1985African Communist c. 89 Some leaders of the Bantustans have protested to the S.A. government against its constitutional reforms. |