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Unit 5
Southern Africa Notes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| escarpment | the steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area. |
| velds | open grassland areas are known as the |
| Pans | low flat areas formed from dry stream beds. |
| Afrikaners | Dutch, French, and German settlers and their descendants in South Africa. |
| Boers | Afrikaner frontier farmers who had spread out from the original Cape colony and resisted British rule. |
| apartheid | a policy of separation of races. |
| townships | crowded clusters of tiny homes. |
| Sanctions | economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to force a change in policy. |
| enclave | a small territory surrounded by foreign territory. |