boerewors curtain, noun phrase

Origin:
EnglishShow more Adaptation of general English Iron Curtain, with jocular substitution of boerewors sausage, associated with Afrikaner culture.
derogatory
An imaginary cultural and linguistic barrier separating areas where white Afrikaans-speaking communities are concentrated – particularly in the Western Cape and Gauteng – from areas of greater diversity.
1979 Sunday Times 2 Sept. (Mag. Sect.) 1He came back to South Africa for four tours before the boerewors curtain dropped on him.
1995 M. Lundy in Cape Times 16 June (Top of the Times) 17There is life behind the Boerewors Curtain. In fact, there are surprisingly scenic hiking trails right in the middle of surburbia. And where might the Boerewors Curtain be, you may ask. Well, like the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain, you can’t actually see it. But it stretches across the N1 more or less opposite the N1 City Shopping Centre.
1997 C. Allen & D. Wray in Student Life Vol.4 No.5 June 60What had looked so terribly smart at home in Gardens now seemed so terribly wrong as I crossed the ‘Boerewors Curtain’. For those not in the know, the Boerewors Curtain is that invisible line you traverse the minute you leave the Cape Town city bowl and enter Goodwood, northern suburbs.
2014 zeekoevlei.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Germiston is behind the Boerewors Curtain, so my conscientious objector story might stick.
An imaginary cultural and linguistic barrier separating areas where white Afrikaans-speaking communities are concentrated – particularly in the Western Cape and Gauteng – from areas of greater diversity.
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boerewors, nounn.boer goat, noun phrasen. phr.
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