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- noun South Africa A poor
tenant farmer wholabours for the owner and does somefarming of his own
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Examples
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One Boer might be the possessor of perhaps ten farms and be worth a quarter of a million, while another might be but a poor "bywoner" and not worth a hundred pence, yet the two men would occupy the same rank in time of war.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War P. [Illustrator] Van Breda 1892
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In die ou dae het die pa later die bywoner geword en die oudste broer was die baas van die plaas en soos wat hulle dood, is die eiendom net oorgedra.
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In die ou dae het die pa later die bywoner geword en die oudste broer was die baas van die plaas en soos wat hulle dood, is die eiendom net oorgedra.
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"Now with less than a third of those voters, most of whom identify with the DA, not the NNP, no deputy presidency and crumbling party support, the NNP leadership - playing a weak hand from a poor seat - intends to go in as a 'guest' or 'bywoner' into
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