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((short description|Former bantustan in South West Africa))
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|status = [[Bantustan]]<br>Second-tier authority (1980-1989)
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|image_map_caption = Location of Damaraland (green) within South West Africa (grey).
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|image_map2_caption = Map of the bantustan.
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|capital = ((nowrap|[[Khorixas]]))
|common_languages = [[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoe]]<br/>[[Herero language|Herero]]<br/>English<br/>[[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]]<br/>German
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[[File:Plan Odendaal.png|thumb|300px|Allocation of Land to bantustans according to the [[Odendaal Plan]]. Damaraland is central west.]]

'''Damaraland''' was a name given to the north-central part of [[South West Africa]], which later became [[Namibia]], inhabited by the [[Damara (people)|Damaras]]. It was bordered roughly by [[Ovamboland]] in the north, the [[Namib Desert]] in the west, the [[Kalahari Desert]] in the east, and the [[Windhoek]] region in the south.

==Administrative history==
[[File:Damaraland in Namibia.jpg|thumb|right|Rugged Landscape of Damaraland]]
===Bantustan===
In the 1970s the name '''Damaraland''' was chosen for a [[bantustan]], intended by the [[apartheid]]-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Damara people. The bantustan Damaraland was situated on the western edge of the territory that had been known as Damaraland in the 19th century.

===Representative authority (1980-1989)===
Following the [[Turnhalle Constitutional Conference]] the system of [[Bantustan]]s was replaced in 1980 by Representative Authorities which functioned on the basis of ethnicity only and were no longer based on geographically defined areas.

The '''Representative Authority of the Damaras''' had executive and legislative competencies, being made up of elected Legislative Assemblies which would appoint Executive Committees led by chairmen. 

As second-tier authorities, forming an intermediate tier between central and local government, the representative authorities had responsibility for land tenure, agriculture, education up to primary level, teachers' training, health services, and social welfare and pensions and their Legislative Assemblies had the ability to pass legislation known as Ordinances.<ref>[https://www.lac.org.na/laws/1982/whi23.pdf Official Gazette] </ref>

===Transition to independence (1989-1990)===

Damaraland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to [[Independence of Namibia|independence]].

The name Damaraland predates South African control of Namibia, and was described as "the central portion of [[German South West Africa]]" in the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition]].<ref>((Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Damaraland |volume=7 |page=783 |short=x))</ref>

==Leadership==
*((main|Leaders of Damaraland))

==See also==
* [[Apartheid]]
* [[Bantustans in South West Africa]]
* [[Diocese of Namibia]] (formerly Diocese of Damaraland)

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* [http://www.roadlesstravelled.com.au/vingerclip-rock-formation-damaraland-namibia/ Vingerclip Rock Formation, Damaraland, Namibia] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028041811/http://www.roadlesstravelled.com.au/vingerclip-rock-formation-damaraland-namibia/ |date=28 October 2009 ))

((SWA-Bantustans))
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((Coord missing|Namibia))

[[Category:Bantustans in South West Africa]]
[[Category:Damara people]]
[[Category:States and territories established in 1980]]
[[Category:States and territories disestablished in 1989]]
[[Category:1980 establishments in South West Africa]]
[[Category:1989 disestablishments in South West Africa]]


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