What is "backveld"

Usage examples of "backveld".

I daresay Andrew used his sjambok, for a backveld Dutchman can never keep his hands off a Kaffir.

The men appear to have been chiefly colonial rebels, and not Boers of the backveld, and to that happy chance it may be that the comparative harmlessness of their fire was due.

The competition of younger professionals, of wandering backveld Boers and even of poaching natives who had obtained guns, was growing severe.

So proud of Marie, her sophisticated life-all this time imagining Paris as the Champs-Elysees pictured in the cheap prints sold to backveld hotels.

Only black men would work for a wage that made the diggings profitable, and even that beggarly wage was many times more than the Boer f armers of the surrounding backveld republics could afford to Day.

For these reasons Boer commandos from the little backveld republics were sweeping the land and patrolling the lonely roads from the north to try and prevent the tribesmen reaching the diggings and instead press them to work upon the land.

So the nation was now referred to as Griqua, and the land on which New Rush stood was renamed Griqualand West, a definition which made it easier for Whitehall to champion old Nicholaas Waterboer, the Bastaard captain's claim to the area, over that of the Boer presidents of the backveld republics which also claimed the area as part of their dominions.