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===South Africa's Bantustans===
[[Image:Namibia homelands 78.jpeg|thumb|Map of Bantustans in [[South West Africa]] (present-day [[Namibia]]) as of 1978]]
During the 1970s and 1980s, four ethnic [[Bantustan]]s - some of which were extremely [[gerrymandering|fragmented]] - called "homelands" by the government of the time, were carved out of [[South Africa]] and given nominal [[sovereignty]]. Mostly [[Xhosa people]] resided in the [[Ciskei]] and [[Transkei]], [[Tswana people]] in [[Bophuthatswana]], and [[Venda people]] in the [[Venda]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Trump's Plan for Palestine Looks a Lot Like Apartheid |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/trumps-plan-for-palestine-looks-a-lot-like-apartheid/ |work=[[Foreign Policy]] |date=27 February 2020}}</ref>{{rs?|date=May 2023}}

The principal purpose of these states was to remove South African citizenship from the Xhosa, Tswana, and Venda peoples, and so provide grounds for denying them their democratic rights. All four Bantustans were reincorporated into a democratic South Africa on 27 April 1994, under a [[Constitution of South Africa|new constitution]].{{fact|date=April 2022}}

The South African authorities established ten Bantustans in [[South West Africa]] (present-day [[Namibia]]), then [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 264|illegally occupied]] by South Africa, in the late 1960s and early 1970s in accordance with the [[Fox Odendaal|Odendaal Commission]]. Three of them were granted self-rule. These Bantustans were replaced with separate ethnicity-based governments in 1980.{{cn|date=May 2023}}