lekgoa


according to the setswana-english dictionary (pula press 1977):

lekgoa, n., a european; an english person.

almost all of the african languages consists of word-cl-sses, eg cl-ss for (singular/plural): people (mo/ba); things (le/ma) etc.

le: the cl-ss for things
kgoa: n., pl. dikgoa, a bush louse; a species of tick, found chiefly on the hinder parts of animals.

although many of these cultures outgrown their language-meanings,this word is used for derogation purposes.

see also: legoa pointing as white man or boer.
the lekgoa was the creators of apartheid: the white man(insulting) was the creators of segregation (direct translation=separateness)

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