Bushmanland () was a

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in South West Africa (present-day

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), intended by the

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government to be a

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homeland for the

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(the Bushmen).

Administrative history

Bushmanland was established by the South African authorities with the issue of Proclamation 208 in 1976. No government or second-tier authority was established for the San Bushmen as it was believed that "they had evinced no interest in having a governing authority". Instead, a Bushman Advisory Council was established in 1986. Bushmanland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was replaced by a system of non-geographic ethnic-based administrations in 1980, which were in turn abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.

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Administrative history

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