Tswanaland
Tswanaland | |||||||||
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| 1980–1989 | |||||||||
Map of the Bantustan | |||||||||
| Status | Bantustan Second-tier authority (1980–1989) | ||||||||
| Capital | Aminuis | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1980 | ||||||||
• Re-integrated into Namibia | May 1989 | ||||||||
| Currency | South African rand | ||||||||
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Tswanaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Tswanas, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), in the far central eastern area of the territory around the village of Aminuis. It was intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Tswana people.