What does backveld mean?
Backveld means (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas..
And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else.
If it hadn't been for Susan he might have ended his life in some small, forgotten backveld village, quietly content to teach a bit of history and geography to one generation of school children after the other […].
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Backveld means (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas..
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And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else.
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