‖verdringing, noun
- Origin:
- Afrikaans.
Overcrowding; a term used by the former Nationalist Party government and others in warning that the abolition of apartheid would lead to the overcrowding of facilities. Used ironically.
1982 Voice 24 Jan. 4It’s what Dr Piet ‘Promises’ Koornhof calls ‘verdringing’. Well, let’s say it straight out: if Blacks did choose to use the pools.., there would be ‘verdringing’. Why? Because there are not enough pools for blacks.
1992 ‘Hogarth’ in Sunday Times 17 May 24A..World Bank report..estimates that 40 percent of the land within a 10km radius of central Johannesburg is vacant. So much for verdringing.
Overcrowding; a term used by the former Nationalist Party government and others in warning that the abolition of apartheid would lead to the overcrowding of facilities. Used ironically.
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