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(a country having) a form of government in which the people freely elect representatives to govern them.

─ Pharos English Dictionary for South African Schools

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as free as (the) air / a bird ─ Completely free.

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South Africanisms:

The Born Frees are the young people born in South African in 1994 (the year of the first fully democratic election) or thereafter. They are also referred to as the 'born free generation', because they were born in or since the year in which the 'free' South African was born or because they were perceived to be 'free' from the conditions of their forebears. The name was possibly modelled on the title of Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, the story of Elsa the lion. There are those who disapprove of the term, as they maintain that it implies that all is well with this generation – they are born free from poverty or deprivation - and that they are being encouraged to ignore the past, to feel 'free' to forget.

─ Say again? The other side of South African English

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Afrikaans-Engels/English-Afrikaans Dictionary (Pharos 2010)

Verklarende Afrikaanse Woordeboek (Labuschagne & Eksteen 2010)

Bilingual School Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (Pharos 2016)

English Dictionary for South African Schools (Pharos 2015)

Tesourus van Afrikaans (De Stadler & De Stadler 2007)

Sinonieme en verwante woorde (Buro van die WAT 2006)

Groot Woordeboek Afrikaans en Nederlands (Pharos 2011)

Lys Klassieke Eiename – Eng./Afr. (Taalkommissie 1984)

South African Multilingual Dictionary (Pharos 2015)

English/Afrikaans/Zulu/Xhosa Aid (Uys 2002)

English/Afrikaans/Northern Sotho/Tswana Aid (Uys 2008)

Afrikaans-Japannese Woordeboek (Kotzé 2015)

Verklarende Biologiewoordeboek (Webb, De Villiers & Du Toit 1983)

Botanical Dictionary (SA Akademie 1972)

Brug-woordelys – Eng./Afr. explanatory (Dorfling 2003)

Building Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (SA Akademie 1960)

New Business Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (Geldenhuys & Viljoen-Smook 2009)

Dictionary of Economics and Business – Eng./Afr. (Steenkamp & Reynders 2004)

Filatelieterme – Afr./Eng. (Filatelistevereniging & SA Akademie 1977)

Geologiese en verwante terme – Afr./Eng. (SA Akademie 1953)

Dictionary for the Health Sciences – Eng./Afr. (Lochner & Brink 2011)

Mathematics Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (SA Akademie 1987)

SA Music Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (SA Akademie 2000)

Dictionary of Oceanology – Eng./Afr. (Lutjeharms 2004)

Police Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (Du Toit 1994)

Property Economics – Eng./Afr. (Rode 2005)

Radio-TV-Theatre-Film Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (SA Akademie 1999)

Woordeboek van Regs- en Handelsterme – Eng./Afr. explanatory (Smuts & Smuts 1992)

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of short-term insurance – Eng./Afr. (Lindstrom 2012)

Technical Dictionary – Eng./Afr. (Terblanche 2003)

Water and Sewage Works Terms – Eng./Afr. (SA Akademie 1967)

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