Shangaan

noun

a member of any of the Tsonga-speaking Bantu peoples settled in Mozambique and NE Transvaal, esp one who works in a gold mine

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Historical Examples of shangaan

Close on its heels came the message from Henriques by a Shangaan in his pay.
Prester John
John Buchan
It was the kraal of the old white-tufted Shangaan, as Shadrach learned afterwards.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908
Various
A Shangaan baboon’—he grinned at his companion—‘is more easily frightened than those of the Drakensberg.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908
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