- KaNgwane
Infobox Former Country
native_name = KaNgwane
conventional_long_name =
common_name = KaNgwane
continent = Africa
region = Southern Africa
country = South Africa
status = Bantustan
empire =
event_start = Self-government
year_start = 1981
date_start =
event_end = Re-integrated into South Africa
year_end = 1994
date_end = April 27
event_post =
date_post =
p1 = Republic of South Africa
flag_p1 = Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg
s1 = Republic of South Africa
flag_s1 = Flag of South Africa.svg
image_map_caption = Location of KaNgwane within South Africa
capital =Nyamasane (Louieville )
title_leader =
leader1 =
national_anthem =
common_languages = Swati language|Swati
religion =
currency =South African Rand KaNgwane was a
bantustan inSouth Africa , intended by theapartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for theSwazi people. Formerly called the "Swazi Territory", the homeland was granted nominal self-rule in 1981.Schoemansdal was designated as its capital. Its official capital was at Louieville (formerly Nyamasane). It was the least populous of the ten homelands, with an estimated 183,000 inhabitants only.An attempt to transfer parts of the homeland to the neighboring (genuinely independent) country of
Swaziland in 1982 failed following protests. The homeland's territory had been claimed by King Sobhuza of Swaziland as part of the Swazi monarchs' traditional realm, and the South African government hoped to use the homeland as a buffer zone against guerrilla infiltration fromMozambique . It responded to the failure of the transfer by temporarily suspending the autonomy of KaNgwane, then restoring it in 1984.Unlike the other homelands in South Africa, KaNgwane did not adopt a distinctive flag of its own and flew the national
flag of South Africa .KaNgwane was re-integrated into
Transvaal on26 April 1994 . Its territory now forms part of the provinces ofMpumalanga andKwaZulu-Natal .ee also
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Chief Ministers of KaNgwane
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