Kaffraria

[kuh-frair-ee-uh]

noun

1. a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.

Kaffraria

/ kæˈfrɛərɪə /

noun

1. a former region of S central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by people then known as the Kaffirs; British Kaffraria was a crown colony established in 1853 in the southwest of the region and annexed to Cape Colony in 1865

Other Word Forms

• Kaffrarian adjective

Example Sentences

On the 16th of December the whole of the troops in Albany and British Kaffraria were assembled and moved under the Commander-in-Chief towards the Amatolas, the object being to overawe the Gaikas without resorting to force, which was to be carefully avoided.

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They are now found between the Drakensberg Mountains and the Indian Ocean, fruitful areas about the Zoutpansberg and Kaffraria.

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Fritsch divides the Hottentots into three bodies; the Cape Hottentots, from the Cape peninsula eastward to Kaffraria, the Koranna, chiefly on the right bank of the Orange river, but also found on the Harts and the Vaal, and the Namaqua in the western portion of South Africa.

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The Journey herein recorded occupied nine months, and was performed mostly in a waggon, or on foot, through the Karroo, the Orange Sovereignty, Natal, Faker's Territory, British Kaffraria, and the eastern province.

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It forms part of the Transkeian Territories of the Cape, and is described under Kaffraria.

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