bushveld
Britishnoun
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With its acacia trees and lion-gold grass, the bay area looks more like the South African bushveld than a tropical island.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2015
The Royal Bafokeng stadium is located in the heart of the savannah bushveld and was built with money invested by the tribe of the same name when lucrative platinum deposits were mined in the area.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
A violinist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Marais collected the rhythmic calypso-style Afrikaner folk songs, which, as a sort of bushveld hillbilly, he was later to sing in the U.S. and Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alchemy in South Africa A labyrinth of pipes and valves, tanks and towers rises above the flat bushveld 60 miles north of Johannesburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bushveld Generally used in the Transvaal in reference to the low veld, in contrast to the high veld of the south and east and the bushveld of the north-east and north.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
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