East Caprivi

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East Caprivi
Oos-Caprivi
Ostcaprivi
1972–1989
Flag of Caprivi Bantustan.svg
Flag
CoA of East Caprivi (reconstruction).png
Coat of arms [2]
Plan Odendaal.png
Allocation of Land to bantustans according to the Odendaal Plan. East Caprivi is in the top right corner.
Map BantoustanEastCaprivi.PNG
Map of the bantustan
Status Bantustan (1972-1980)
Second-tier authority (1980-1989)
Capital Katima Mulilo
Common languages Subiya
English
Afrikaans
History 
 Self-government
1972
 Re-integrated into Namibia
May 1989
CurrencySouth African rand
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg South West Africa
Namibia  Flag of Namibia.svg

East Caprivi or Itenge was a bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Caprivis in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Masubiya people.

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Administrative History

Bantustan (1972-1980)

It was set up in 1972, in the very corner of the Namibian panhandle called the Caprivi Strip. [3] It was granted a self-governing status in 1976.

Unlike the other homelands in South West Africa, East Caprivi was administered through the Department of Bantu Administration and Development in Pretoria. [4]

Representative authority (1980-1989)

Following the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference the system of Bantustans was replaced in 1980 by Representative Authorities which functioned on the basis of ethnicity only and were no longer based on geographically defined areas.

Representative Authorities had executive and legislative competencies, being made up of elected Legislative Assemblies which would appoint Executive Committees led by chairmen.

As second-tier authorities, forming an intermediate tier between central and local government, the representative authorities had responsibility for land tenure, agriculture, education up to primary level, teachers' training, health services, and social welfare and pensions and their Legislative Assemblies had the ability to pass legislation known as Ordinances. [5]

Transition to independence (1989-1990)

East Caprivi, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.

Leadership

See also

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References

  1. The Flag Bulletin, issue 18 (Flag Research Center, 1979).
  2. The Flag Bulletin, issue 18 (Flag Research Center, 1979).
  3. "A survey of race relations in South Africa: 1974" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  4. Lenggenhager, Luregn (4 May 2015). "Nature, War and Development: South Africa's Caprivi Strip, 1960–1980". Journal of Southern African Studies. 41 (3): 467–483. doi:10.1080/03057070.2015.1025337. ISSN   0305-7070. S2CID   142811673.
  5. https://www.lac.org.na/laws/1982/whi23.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]

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