Definition of "bantustans" [bantustans]

• Plural form of bantustan. (noun)

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• "The Palestinian areas resemble "bantustans" - the supposedly ­autonomous black states within apartheid South Africa, which were in reality controlled by the racist regime."
• "The enormous expenditure incurred to establish and maintain the bantustans is a result of grand apartheid designs."
• "Thus we would engage this enemy in political struggle, interpreting the centenary in the context of our national struggle and not of tribalism and the bantustans, which is what the apartheid regime was bound to do."