Kavangoland [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Kavangoland
Kavangoland was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Kavango people. It was set up in 1970 and self-government was granted in 1973.
Kavangoland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to independence.
See also.
- Apartheid
- Leaders of Kavangoland
Sebastian Kamwanga
Sebastian Kamwanga (29 April 1929 – 22 January 1999) was a "Hompa" (king) of the Gciriku, one of five kingdoms of the Kavango people in northern Namibia, from 1985 to 1999. His royal seat was situated at Mamono. He sat in the Legislative Council and the Executive Council of Kavangoland from 1973 until Namibian independence in 1990 when Bantustans were abolished along with the South African apartheid occupation of South-West Africa.
Kamwanga was born on April 29, 1929 in the village of