Kafferskraal

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proper noun

A place name for many farms originally worked by black natives.

OriginAfrikaans Kafferskraal →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. South AfricaA 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

  1. AfrikaansKafferskraal
  2. EnglishKafferskraal

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

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APA

Kafferskraal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kafferskraal

MLA

“Kafferskraal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kafferskraal. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kafferskraal,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kafferskraal.

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