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(now historical) A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827..
Remember the words of the young Bibault in the revolt against Van der Stel in 1706: ‘I shall not go. I am an Afrikaner and even if the landdrost kills me or puts me in jail I refuse to hold my tongue.’
About ten years before this resistance movement the settlement comprised merely four houses, one of which was used by the landdrost.
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Landdrost means (now historical) A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827..
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Remember the words of the young Bibault in the revolt against Van der Stel in 1706: ‘I shall not go. I am an Afrikaner and even if the landdrost kills me or puts me in jail I refuse to hold my tongue.’
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