Lebowa

/ ləˈbəʊə /

noun

1. a former Bantu homeland in NE South Africa, consisting of three separate territories with several smaller exclaves: abolished in 1993

Example Sentences

The Swazi bantustan, Lebowa, and Venda were composed of three pieces each; Gazankule, four; the Ciskei, seventeen; Bophuthatswana, nineteen; and KwaZulu, twenty-nine.

From Literature

As early as 1964, the white government was pressing them to move to their designated homeland of Lebowa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apart from BophuthaTswana and Lebowa, which have rich mineral deposits, the rural homelands lack exploitable resources.

From Time Magazine Archive