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Kafferskraal

Kafferskraal proper noun: a place name for many farms originally worked by black natives.

Proper noun

Kafferskraal

  1. (South Africa) A place name for many farms originally worked by black natives.
    • It was put to him that the name Kafferskraal signified that the farm had always been a black kraal occupied by blacks and the name was used since the 1850s with no other European name given to it.2002, Bakone Justice Moloto, Land Claims Court of South Africa case LCC 3/00https://web.archive.org/web/20200703080215/https://www.justice.gov.za/lcc/jdgm/2002/3-00.pdf

Origin of Kafferskraal

From Afrikaans Kafferskraal, from kaffer (“black, kaffir”) and kraal (“corral”).

Questions about Kafferskraal

What does Kafferskraal mean?
Kafferskraal means a place name for many farms originally worked by black natives.
What part of speech is Kafferskraal?
Kafferskraal is a proper noun.

Words near Kafferskraal in the dictionary

  1. Kaffeklubben
  2. kaffer
  3. kafferboom
  4. kafferbooms
  5. kaffers
  6. Kafferskraal
  7. kaffir
  8. kaffir beer
  9. kaffir beers
  10. kaffir bread
  11. kaffir cabbage

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