Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A landlord or landowner in the Rand (in full, Witwaters rand) in the Transvaal Colony, South Africa.
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"It's just a case of a company with black directors," the economist said, adding that Motlana was becoming a "randlord" -- a term useds to describe the whites who originally built vast fortunes out of the discovery of gold in Johannesburg.
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