Former bantustan in South-West Africa (now Namibia)
Namaland
1980–1989
Flag
Location of the bantustan (green) within South West Africa (grey).
Status
Bantustan Second-tier authority
Capital
Keetmanshoop
History
• Established
1980
• Re-integrated into Namibia
May 1989
Currency
South African rand
Preceded by
Succeeded by
South West Africa
Namibia
Allocation of land to bantustans (orange) according to the Odendaal Plan. The protected areas and national parks are grey, the white-administered Police Zone is green. Namaland is the homeland in the South.
Namaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Namas, the in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Nama people. Namaland comprised an area of 2,156 km2 (832 sq mi) and was to accommodate the estimated 34,806 southern Namas of the South West African territory.
The term Namaland also covers a much broader region of southern Namibia which is the traditional home of the northern Nama or Namaqua people. Their language, Nama, is the only surviving dialect of the Khoekhoe language. The suffix -qua means “people” and can be added to the names of most Khoekhoe groups. The region of the Northern Cape south of the Orange River is called Namaqualand.
Namaland was a Bantustan and then later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Namas, the in South West...
Tenure Incumbent Affiliation Namaland (Representative Authority of the Namas) 1 July 1980 to 31 March 1985 Cornelius Cloete, Chairman of the Executive...
Namaqualand (Khoikhoi: "Nama-kwa" meaning Nama Khoi people's land) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over 1...
he and his council played a dominant political role in Damaraland and Namaland, creating a de facto state. Around 1840, he established a settlement at...
collected from the Khoikhoi people by Leonhard Schultze-Jena for his book Aus Namaland und Kalahari. McLeish, Kenneth (1996). AIGAMUXA. Bloomsbury Publishing...
Leonhard (1907) Aus Namaland und Kalahari, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena OCLC 470637064 (in German) Leonhard Schultze et al. (1970) In Namaland and the Kalahari...
1905); A. R. Colquhoun, Africander Land (New York, 1906); L. Schultze, Aus Namaland und Kalahari (Jena, 1907); Meinhof, Carl, Die Sprachen der Hamiten (Hamburg...
Invisible Woman: Zara Schmelen, African Mission Assistant at the Cape and in Namaland. Sasman, Catherine (23 April 2010). "Namibia: Zara Schmelen - the Invisible...
province 77 South Iran province 78 Sindia province 79 Namibia province 80 Namaland province 81 Western Cape province 82 Karoo province 83 St. Helena and Ascension...
Cape Colony, 22 July 1883) was a Protestant Rhenish Missionary active in Namaland, South West Africa. Hahn was born in 1805 in Teutschenthal in what is today...
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