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{{Short description|Former Bantustan in South Africa}}

[[Image:FlagofKwaNdbele.png|thumb|200px|Flag of KwaNdebele]]'''KwaNdebele''' was a [[bantustan]] in [[South Africa]], intended by the apartheid government as a semi-independent homeland for the [[Matabele]] people.

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{{Infobox country

|native_name =

|conventional_long_name = KwaNdebele

|common_name = KwaNdebele

|status = [[Bantustan]]

[[Category:History|p1 = Republic of South Africa]]

|flag_p1 = Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg

|s1 = Republic of South Africa

|flag_s1 = Flag of South Africa.svg

|image_flag = Flag of KwaNdbele.svg

|image_coat = Coat of arms of KwaNdebele.svg

|flag = Flag of KwaNdebele bantustan

|image_map = KwaNdebele in South Africa.svg

|image_map_caption = Location of KwaNdebele (red) within South Africa (yellow).

|national_motto = |national_anthem =

|capital = [[KwaMhlanga]]

|common_languages = [[Southern Ndebele language|Southern Ndebele]]<br/>[[Northern Ndebele language|Northern Ndebele]]<br />[[Sepedi language|Sepedi]]

|title_leader = |leader1 =

|event_start = Self-government

|year_start = 1981

|date_start = 1 April

|event_end = Re-integrated into South Africa

|year_end = 1994

|date_end = 27 April

|currency = South African rand

|stat_year1 = 1980<ref name="FrankentalSichone2005">{{cite book|author1=Sally Frankental|author2=Owen Sichone|title=South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G9vI6NEjgYC&pg=PA187|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-674-3|page=187}}</ref>

|stat_area1 = 1970

|stat_pop1 = 156,380

|stat_year2 = 1991<ref name=RSAdist/>

|stat_area2 =

|stat_pop2 = 404,246

}}

{{Infobox ethnonym|root=Ndebele|person=iNdebele|people=[[Southern Ndebele people|AmaNdebele]]|language=[[Southern Ndebele language|IsiNdebele]]|country= KwaNdebele}}

'''KwaNdebele''' was a [[Bantustan]] in [[South Africa]], intended by the [[Apartheid in South Africa|apartheid government]] as a semi-independent homeland for the [[South Ndebele people|Ndebele]] people. The homeland was created when the South African government purchased nineteen white-owned farms and installed a government.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nielsen |first=Derrick |date=1996-03-11 |title="Bringing together that which belongs together": The establishment of KwaNdebele and the incorporation of Moutse |hdl=10539/9359 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10539/9359 |access-date=2024-01-10 |language=en}}</ref>

==History==

The homeland was granted self-rule in [[1981]]. [[Siyabuswa]] was designated as its capital, but in [[1986]] the capital was relocated to [[KwaMhlanga]].

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. Some preparations were made, but an exceptional lack of viability in economic affairs and land disputes prevented this.<ref>William J. Pomeroy. ''Apartheid, Imperialism and African Freedom''. New York: International Publishers. 1986. pp. 12-13.</ref><ref>Richard L. Abel. ''Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994''. New York: Routledge. 1995. p. 438.</ref>

KwaNdebele was re-integrated into [[South Africa]] onafter the [[261994 AprilSouth African general election]]. It now forms part of the [[1994Mpumalanga]] province.

==Districts in 1991==

Districts of the province and population at the 1991 census.<ref name=RSAdist>{{cite web|title=Census > 1991 > RSA > Variable Description > Person file > District code|url=http://interactive.statssa.gov.za:8282/webview/|publisher=Statistics South Africa - Nesstar WebView|access-date=18 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619202856/http://interactive.statssa.gov.za:8282/webview/|archive-date=19 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

* [[Mdutjana]]: 125,485

* [[Mkobola]]: 212,771

* [[Mbibana]]: 65,989

==See Other homelands also==

*[[Chief Ministers of KwaNdebele]]

*[[Ciskei]] (independent)

*[[Gazankulu]] (self-rule)

*[[Kangwane]] (self-rule)

*[[KwaZulu]] (self-rule)

*[[Lebowa]] (self-rule)

*[[QwaQwa]] (self-rule)

*[[Transkei]] (independent)

*[[Venda]] (independent)

== Bibliography ==

* South Africa 1980/81 – Official Yearbook of the Republic of South Africa {{ISBN|0-908393-51-2}}, {{ISSN|0302-0681}}

==References==

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