landdrost

plural landdrosts

1. historicalA type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827.

   About ten years before this resistance movement the settlement comprised merely four houses, one of which was used by the landdrost.

   2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82

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   Remember the words of the young Bibault in the revolt against Van der Stel in 1706: ‘I shall not go. I am an Afrikaner and even if the landdrost kills me or puts me in jail I refuse to hold my tongue.’

   1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 160