Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the homelands formerly established for blacks in South Africa by the government during the apartheid era.
- noun A landlocked, often fragmented ethnic enclave within a larger state, nominally possessing some degree of autonomy but usually economically dependent and lacking real power.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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MICHAEL HIRSH, "NEWSWEEK" MAGAZINE: Well, from his point of view, it would have created what he called a Bantustan (ph) type setup for the Palestinian state, namely armed camps surrounded by Israeli soldiers, Gaza and the West Bank, the areas that would have formed the new Palestinian state, would have been essentially cut off each other and under Israeli control.
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The term "Bantustan" is therefore a complete misnomer, and merely tends to help the Nationalists perpetrate a fraud.
VERWOERD'S GRIM PLOT 1959
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(This applies equally to the so-called Bantustan areas in South Africa.)
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Those who do not own an allotment are being removed to work colonies for the landless, which the government prefers to call Bantustan towns.
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Saying it would have been a "Bantustan" looks a bit much.
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• They repeat Yasir Arafat's "Bantustan" accusation - that Prime Minister Barak didn't offer the Palestinians a contiguous West Bank in 2000 - concluding, contrary to the published maps, that "no Israeli government has been willing to offer the Palestinians a viable state of their own."
Alan Dershowitz: A Challenge to Walt and Mearsheimer's Publisher 2008
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All Palestinians got was a plan dividing the West Bank into four isolated "Bantustan" cantons surrounded by Israeli settlements and continued occupation with no resolution of their fundamental long-standing problems and core issues.
A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 2007
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All Palestinians got was a plan dividing the West Bank into four isolated "Bantustan" cantons surrounded by Israeli settlements and continued occupation with no resolution of their fundamental long-standing problems and core issues.
A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 2007
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"Bantustan" parties, a carry-over from the apartheid years, have continued to lose support.
ANC Today 2006
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This was necessary to ensure the "queues of people without social security grants" were brought to an end, especially in the rural areas and the former "Bantustan" homelands.
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