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- former homeland (Bantustan) and autonomous national state in the Republic of South Africa
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1973–1994,
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(Source: Library of Congress)
Area: 2.857 square miles
Inhabitants: 803.806 (1992), mostly Shangana
Density of Population: 281 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Giyani, 25.954 inh. (2011)
Languages: Shangana, English, Afrikaans
Currency: 1 Rand (R) = 100 Cents
Time Zone: GMT + 2 h
Source: Wikipedia (D)
1971 · establishment of the homeland "Machangana" (from 1973 "Gazankulu") for Shangana
1973 · South Africa grants autonomy
27th of April 1994 · new constitution for South Africa, official abolition of the racial segregation, dissolution of the homelands
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World Statesmen
The homeland was named first "Machangana", by the name of the Bantu tribe of his inhabitants. Later it was renamed in "Gazankulu" to honour a great chief, according to other sources to honour the ols Kingdom of "Gaza".
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