Today, the congress invited the leaders of four of the six self-governing homelands to be briefed on its talks last week with the Government.

Among the vestiges of apartheid abolished today in an exuberant final round of compromise were the 10 self-governing homelands invented by apartheid as reservations for the country's blacks.

The self-governing former homelands enjoyed concurrent legislative powers in South Africa with the central government, although there were certain limitations on their legislators.

Maps of Canada are about to be redrawn after a vote that carves up Canada's north, setting the boundaries of what is to become a self-governing homeland for Eskimos.

Ovamboland then became a bantustan called Owambo, intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing "homeland" for the Ovambo people.

The Inuits will shortly regain a huge part of northern Canada as their self-governing homeland.

All are nominally independent or self-governing ethnic homelands created by Pretoria.

It is one of the few self-governing homelands that still exists today.

It was intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Tswana people.

Kavangoland was a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Kavango people.