Bantustans in South West Africa
The creation of homelands in South West Africa in 1964 proposed in the Odendaal Plan, the recommendations for infrastructure and economic development of South West Africa (now Namibia) contained. He was the counterpart of the Union of South Africa homeland policy.
History
1962 was established with the ostensible goal of promoting the economic development of South Africa by the South African government, the Odendaal Commission. Main content was the establishment of homelands for the various ethnic groups and the relocation of their relatives. Named after the Kommisssionsvorsitzenden Fox Odendaal plan had the black and colored population by strains isolated about 40 % of the total territory of South West Africa. Almost 50 % of the country, however, the white population, which accounted for only 8% of the total population, were granted.
The plan was based on the policy of apartheid and the fact implied by official principle of " separate development ". Specifically, however, it was intended to change the black majority by assigning tribal, reserve areas - the so-called homelands - to cleave to maintain function of the white government in Pretoria and its administrators for South West Africa, thus securing the supremacy of the white minority population.
The first homelands in South Africa were established in 1968. To this end, the South African Parliament decided the Development of Self -Government for Native Nations of South - West Africa Act, No. 54 of 1968 ( German as: Law for the development of self-government of indigenous nations in South-West Africa ), but in which the Tswana, Bushmen left unmentioned and for Coloureds, Nama and Rehoboth Baster had no validity, since in the jurisdiction of the Department of Coloured Affairs ( German about: Ministry for Affairs of the colored people ) fell.
Three of the ten homelands in South West Africa were given a status of autonomy: the eastern Caprivi ( from 1976 Lozi ), Kavangoland and Ovamboland.
With the independence of Namibia in 1990, the homelands were abolished, however the country associated distribution has remained virtually untouched and become an ongoing point of contention of the Namibian domestic policy.