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Venda (RSA) |
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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. Venda was the most northerly of these,
located in the northern portion of what was Transvaal, near the border
with Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Although not accorded international
recognition as a sovereign state, Venda's stamps were generally accepted
on international mail. Venda ceased to exist April 27, 1994. |
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