Burgerraad, noun

/ˈbɜːɡərɑːt//ˈbɜːɡərɑːd/
Forms:
Also Burgherraad, Burgerrad, and with small initial.
Plurals:
Burgerrade/ˈbɜːɡərɑːdə/, Burgerraden/ˈbɜːɡərɑːdən/, occasionally Burgerraade/ˈbɜːɡərɑːdə/.
Origin:
South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch burgher citizen + raad council (see also raad). Cf. burgher.
1. Obsolete except in historical contexts burgher senate sense a; a member of this authority. See also raad sense 1.
c1795 W.S. Van Ryneveld in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1897) I. 245The first of the Burgerraden was President, and the Secretary paid by the College itself was also a Burgher.
1796 J. Smuts et al. in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1897) I. 379The Burgherraden, among many other functions, are also charged with the care of the Windmills and of the Conduits to the Public Pumps.
1827 Reports of Commissioners upon Finances at Cape of G.H. I. 48In the following year this number was increased to four, under the appellation of ‘Burger Raaden,’ or burgher council, and their jurisdiction was extended to civil cases.
1862 Court of Policy Resolutions in Stat. Law of Cape of G.H. p.lxxIt was resolved to approve the regulations made by Burgerraden regarding..the use of water descending from Table Mountain.
‖2. [Afrikaans] A citizen’s council as formed by the AWB.
1986 Weekend Argus 8 Mar.Mr Terre’Blanche claims the AWB has now been organised in ‘burgerrade’ throughout the country.
burgher senate sense a; a member of this authority.
A citizen’s council as formed by the AWB.
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