KaNgwane

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KaNgwane

KaNgwane was a bantustan

Bantustan

A bantustan or euphemistically black african homeland or simply homeland, was territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South-West Africa , as part of the policy of South Africa under apartheid....
in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, intended by the apartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for the Swazi

Swazi

The Swazi are a Bantu languages-speaking people in southeastern Africa, chiefly in Swaziland and South Africa and some in Mozambique, who speak the siSwati language....
people. Formerly called the "Swazi Territory", the homeland was granted nominal self-rule in 1981. Schoemansdal was designated as its capital. Its official capital was at Louieville (formerly Nyamasane). It was the least populous of the ten homelands, with an estimated 183,000 inhabitants only.

An attempt to transfer parts of the homeland to the neighboring (genuinely independent) country of Swaziland

Swaziland

The Kingdom of Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south, and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique....
in 1982 failed following protests.

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KaNgwane was a bantustan

Bantustan

South Africa

Swazi

Swaziland

The Kingdom of Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south, and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique....
in 1982 failed following protests. The homeland's territory had been claimed by King Sobhuza

Sobhuza II of Swaziland

Ngwenyama Sobhuza II was the Paramount Chief and later List of Kings of Swaziland of Swaziland. He was the son of Ngwane V of Swaziland....
of Swaziland as part of the Swazi monarchs' traditional realm, and the South African government hoped to use the homeland as a buffer zone against guerrilla infiltration from Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....
. It responded to the failure of the transfer by temporarily suspending the autonomy of KaNgwane, then restoring it in 1984.

Unlike the other homelands in South Africa, KaNgwane did not adopt a distinctive flag of its own and flew the national flag of South Africa

Flag of South Africa

The current flag of the Republic of South Africa was adopted on April 27, 1994, during the South African general election, 1994. A new national flag was adopted to represent the new democracy....
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KaNgwane was re-integrated into Transvaal

Transvaal

File:Flag of Transvaal.svgFile:Transvaal map.pngFile:Spelterini Transvaal.jpgThe Transvaal is the name of an area of northern South Africa....
on 26 April 1994. Its territory now forms part of the provinces of Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga, , is a Provinces of South Africa South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Nguni languages....
and KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal , often referred to as "KZN", is a Provinces of South Africa of South Africa. Prior to 1994 the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the Natal Province and all pieces of territory that made up the homeland of KwaZulu....
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