What does burghership mean?
Burghership means The state of being a burgher; citizenship..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The state of being a burgher; citizenship..
"It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.
In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.
No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.
"All coloured people are excluded from this provision, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership...."
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Burghership means The state of being a burgher; citizenship..
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"It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.
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