Namaland [SEP] dissolved or abolished
The townlands of Gibeon were added, and formed the administrative capital of the bantustan. This territory excluded the former "Bondels" Nama reserve, comprising around Warmbad. Its Nama inhabitants were to relocate to the new reserve. 
Namaland, 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 Namaland
Namaland
Namaland was a Bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Nama people. A centrally administered local government was created in 1980.
The term Namaland also covers a much broader region of southern Namibia which is the traditional home of the northern Nama or Namaqua people. Their language, Nama, is the only surviving dialect of the Khoekhoe language. The suffix -qua means “people” and can be added to the names of