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Ndebele | |
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Person | iNdebele |
People | AmaNdebele |
Language | IsiNdebele |
Country | KwaNdebele |
KwaNdebele | |||||||||
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1981–1994 | |||||||||
![]() 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]
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