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What were the homelands in South Africa?

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Homelands were rural communities where thousands of black South Africans were forced to relocate.

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The homelands were parts of land reserved for the black population of the South Africa in the times of apartheid. There were ten homelands; and they had a kind of autonomy (or partial independence). The purpose of creating them was to concentrate black population in specific areas.
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