KwaNdebele

• Location: South Africa

'Place of the Ndebele' from kwa, a Zulu word signifying 'at' or 'in (the place of)'. A former homeland established in 1979 for the Transvaal Ndebele people after they had been evicted from Bophuthatswana. In 1981 it became a self-governing national state, but was reincorporated into South Africa in 1994. The Ndebele were previously known as the Matabele. See Matabeleland.

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