Word: meneer
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Pretoria's old Raadsaal (council hall) was windy with laughter last week. Ninety-nine Nationalist members of Parliament assembled there, not as legislators but as so-called judges. They thought it was a great joke, and kept calling to each other: "Goeie more, Meneer Regt;" (Good morning, Mister Judge). But for South Africa's second-and third-class citizens, the joke was a grim...
...Prince stood up. Complete silence. Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer "rebels" let out one roar : Ous Prins! (Our Prince) and secession of South Africa from the British Commonwealth lay, apparently shattered, on the floor. Cheers, table banging, clapping, Boer and British songs finally over, the Prince continued, still speaking Dutch...
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