witdoeke
Meanings
noun
- Members of conservative black vigilante groups in the South African provinces of the Cape and Orange Free State in the 1980s.
Word forms
Etymology
From Afrikaans wit (“white”) + doek (“cloth”), referring to the strips of white cloth members wore on their heads or arms.
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