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KaNgwane comprised three blocks of
territory, rather small, in eastern
Transvaal
(today's
Mpumalanga), the southern two bordering
on Swaziland (and one of them also on Mozambique), and the other bordering
on parts of Lebowa and Gazankulu.
Antonio Martins, 30 May 1999
The majority of its inhabitants were Swazis. The name KaNgwane means
the place of the Ngwane, a major tribe of the Swazis whose Chief had that
name.
KaNgwane was granted internal self-government on 31 August 1984.
Unlike the other homelands in South Africa, KaNgwane did not adopt
a distinctive flag of its own and flew the then national flag of South
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