Kafferskraal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

Kafferskraal

  1. (South Africa) A place name for many farms originally worked by black natives.
    • 2002, Bakone Justice Moloto, Land Claims Court of South Africa case LCC 3/00[1]:
      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.