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Bantustan, an Uncommon card
A Bantustan was a territory that the National Party administration of the Union of South Africa and later the Republic of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa, as a part of its policy of apartheid.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Ranked #1,390 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Bantustan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bantustan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term, first used in the late 1940s, was ______ from Bantu and -stan.
Answer
coined. The term, first used in the late 1940s, was coined from Bantu and -stan. From the Bantustan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2025–2026 Indonesian protests. 2025–2026 Indonesian protests 100 · Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 86 · Bantustan 82 · Battle of Tannenberg 78 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bantustan. Bantustan 160,000 · Malacca Sultanate 110,000 · Tamar of Georgia 79,000 · Burke and Wills expedition 62,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term, first used in the late 1940s, was coined from Bantu and -stan.
- It subsequently came to be regarded as a disparaging term by some critics of the apartheid-era government's homelands.
- The Pretoria government established ten Bantustans in South Africa, and ten in neighbouring South West Africa, for the purpose of concentrating the members of designated ethnic groups, thus making each of those territories ethnically homogeneous as the basis for creating autonomous nation states for South Africa's different black ethnic groups.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bantustan article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Bantustan
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bantustan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : DrRandomFactor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
