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  • noun Plural form of pondokkie.

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Examples

  • "The toilet-like pondokkies being provided by the present government are a disgrace that dehumanises our people."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • "When this government attempts to provide houses for blacks it builds pondokkies that are worse than the matchboxes provided by the racist regime," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • We were renting from an Indian landlord and our part of Kensington was not threatened at first, but African families living in pondokkies at the

    Freedom in our Lifetime - Part Two 1980

  • We know what it is to keep family life going in pondokkies and shanties, or in overcrowded one-room apartments.

    Women's Charter 1954

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