Just in case you don't know Afrikaans is the language the people of European Origin spoke in South Africa. It sort of sounds like Dutch, because most of these people were Dutch, to begin with!😀
- Apartheid - which is the most common one, and literally means 'being apart'
- bergwind - a warm wind blowing from the plateau to the coast
- biltong - a dried strip of beef, just like jerky
- Boer - which literally means farmer
- highveld - a plateau
- kraal - a village within a stockade
- rooibos - a tea made from a plant, literally this word means red bush
- trek - which originally meant 'to haul'
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