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East Caprivi Oos-Caprivi Ostcaprivi | |||||||||
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1972–1989 | |||||||||
Coat of arms[1]
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Status | Bantustan (1972-1980) Second-tier authority (1980-1989) | ||||||||
Capital | Katima Mulilo | ||||||||
Common languages | Subiya English Afrikaans | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Self-government | 1972 | ||||||||
• Re-integrated into Namibia | May 1989 | ||||||||
Currency | South African rand | ||||||||
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East Caprivi or Itenge was a bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Caprivis in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Masubiya people.