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- former homeland (Bantustan) in the Republic of South Africa
- from 1979 to 1994 de facto independent
- own name: Riphabuliki ya Venda
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1972–1994,
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(Source: Library of Congress)
Area: 2.861 square miles
Inhabitants: 558.797 (1991), mostly Venda
Density of Population: 195 inh./sq.mi.
Capital: Thohoyandou, 69.453 inh. (2011)
Languages: Venda, English, Afrikaans
Currency: 1 Rand (R) = 100 Cents
Time Zone: GMT + 2 h
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1971 · establishment of the homeland Venda (for Venda-Bantu)
1972 · South Africa grants autonomy
13th of Sept. 1979 · South Africa grants independence (de facto), internationally not recognized
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 name of the country was the name of the Bantu tribe which lived in there.
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