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Bophuthatswana
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One of South Africa's so-called Bantustans or Bantu homelands, a scattering of nominally semi-autonomous states for otherwise disenfranchised black South Africans, located on the sites of reserves set up under the policies of the white-run apartheid government prior to World War II. Bophuthatswana was in fact made up of seven small independent tracts of territory within the eastern half of South Africa, six of which were in the northern part of the nation near the border with Botswana. Although not accorded international
recognition as a sovereign state, Bophuthatswana's stamps were generally
accepted on international mail. Bophuthatswana ceased to exist April 27,
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