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ОглавлениеGlossary of Setswana and Afrikaans names
| bakgosing | royal ward |
| commando | armed, mounted party |
| difaqane | period (c.1800 to 1830s) of political turbulence, migration and social transformation accompanied by frequent destruction of life and property in southern and central Africa |
| inboekeling (pl. inboekelinge) | indentured servant, likened to a slave |
| kgosana (pl. dikgosana) | clan head, sometimes referred to as a headman |
| kgosi (pl. dikgosi) | term for king or chief among all Tswana societies |
| kgotla | public meeting, central meeting place or court |
| khuduthamaga | advisory council to the kgosi comprising family members and dikgosana |
| laager | (Dutch/Afrikaans) defensive fortified position, usually circular, with use of wagons |
| makgowa | Europeans/whites |
| mephato | age regiments |
| morafe (pl. merafe) | chiefdom |
| oorlam(se) | Africans absorbed into Dutch/Afrikaner society and culture |
| pitso | public meeting |
| veldkornet | local district official (in the South African Republic) with administrative and, especially, military duties |
| voortrekkers | Dutch pioneers (later Afrikaners) who set out on the great trek from the Cape Colony from c.1834 to the 1840s and founded the South African Republic and the Orange Free State |
| volksraad | parliament of the South African Republic |
