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At the period of which we speak, the (white) owners of the farmland would live in a Western-type house with rooms, built of brick or stone. Not wood, because of the termites and the weather. This was, naturally, known as a house. But the (indigenous African) farm labourers would live in African-type huts (typically round, one room for all purposes, with overhanging thatch to protect the mud walls from rain) or else shacks constructed of unconsidered trifles - sheets of corrugated iron, cardboard, packing cases etc; these, equally naturally, would be called kaias though the correct plural form was more like makaia or amakaia. From which we see that kaia was itself a pejorative term, though to avoid ambiguity the outhouse would be the PK.
At the period of which we speak, the (white) owners of the farmland would live in a Western-type house with rooms, built of brick or stone. Not wood, because of the termites and the weather. This was, naturally, known as a house. But the (indigenous African) farm labourers would live in African-type huts (typically round, one room for all purposes, with overhanging thatch to protect the mud walls from rain) or else shacks constructed of unconsidered trifles - sheets of corrugated iron, cardboard, packing cases etc; these, equally naturally, would be called kaias though the correct plural form was more like makaia or amakaia. From which we see that kaia was itself a pejorative term, though to avoid ambiguity the outhouse would be the PK.
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