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Coenraad De Buys (1761 – 1821) was described as "a remarkable figures" on the frontier of the Cape Colony. Travellers described him in tones of awe. Their accounts mentioned that he was an impressive figure, nearly seven foot tall and with enormous self-confidence.

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  • Coenraad De Buys (1761 – 1821) was described as "a remarkable figures" on the frontier of the Cape Colony. Travellers described him in tones of awe. Their accounts mentioned that he was an impressive figure, nearly seven foot tall and with enormous self-confidence.
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  • Coenraad De Buys
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  • South African "remarkable figure"
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  • The word "Moro" also came to mean coffee-grounds in Tswana.
  • "Moro", an adulteration of the Dutch/Afrikaans "More", with which he greeted the Hurutshe.
  • "go kgowa", ancient Tswana verb meaning "to peel with a knife"- because the painfully sunburnt Coenraad had left him with red skin that "was regarded as bare flesh peeled off with a knife".
  • Coenraad Buys
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