Saldaniern.
/saldəˈnɪə/ South African History.
A member of a Khoekhoe group that, in the 17th cent., inhabited the region of Saldanha Bay; an African cattle-dealer.
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1607 W. Keeling in R. Raven-Hart Before Van Riebeck (1967) 36 Saldanians alias Cafares.]
1838 D. Moodie tr. J. van Riebeck's Jrnl. in Record i. 16 In the evening some of the Saldania Ottentoos came to the Fort... These two Saldaniers were much bolder and livelier men than the Strandlopers who daily live with us, but still having the same language and clothing.
1838 D. Moodie tr. J. van Riebeck's Jrnl. in Record i. 22 The Saldaniers..lay in thousands about Salt River with their cattle in countless numbers.
1900 A. H. Keane Boer States p. xviii Saldaniers, originally the Hottentots of the grassy Saldanha Bay district, who had always plenty of cattle to sell to the Dutch East India Company's people; later, any native livestock dealers.
1972 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. V. 606/2 As soon as they arrived in South Africa the Portuguese..followed by the Dutch colonists in 1652, came into contact with a yellowish brown pastoral people at the Cape. The colonists at first called them Kaapmans and Saldanhars, but later on the name ‘Hottentot’..became firmly established.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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