Talk:Bantustan
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Where does the -stan come from? Is it just an analogy with Pakistan, Afghanistan,...? -- Error 01:55, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Was KwaZulu ever really a Bantustan ? I know the government wanted it, but I thought Buthelezi stonewalled them and never accepted the designation ? Wizzy 11:18, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Bantustan was never an official term for the homelands, it was a term created by the policy's opponents in order to point out how ridiculous the claim of their independant truly was. In this regard the use of the term Bantustan with the "-stan" reminds the reader of the various Soviet satellites, which though nominally independant USSR countries, were quite obviously and blatantly Russian puppets, and so the reality that the Homelands were merely puppet states of the Apartheid govt is revealed to the reader. Impi 00:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
