KwaNdebele

**KwaNdebele**
	KwaNdebele
	Bantustan
Flag	Coat of arms
	Location of Kwandeb within South Africa
Capital	KwaMhlanga
Language(s)	Southern Ndebele
Political structure	Bantustan
History
- Self-government	1981
- Re-integrated into South Africa	27 April 1994
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.

The homeland was granted self-rule in April 1981. Siyabuswa was designated as its capital, but in 1986 the capital was relocated to KwaMhlanga. The KwaNdebele legislature expressed interest in seeking "independence" (as in the cases of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei) in May 1982 and some preparations were made, but an exceptional lack of viability in economic affairs along with land disputes prevented this from occurring.^[1]^[2]

KwaNdebele was re-integrated into South Africa on 27 April 1994. It now forms part of the Mpumalanga province.

[edit] See also

Chief Ministers of KwaNdebele

[edit] Bibliography

South Africa 1980/81 – Official Yearbook of the Republic of South Africa ISBN 0 908 393 51 2, ISSN 0302 0681

[edit] References

^ William J. Pomeroy. Apartheid, Imperialism and African Freedom. New York: International Publishers. 1986. pp. 12-13.
^ Richard L. Abel. Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994. New York: Routledge. 1995. p. 438.