Noun

(en noun)

The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.

* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:

Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.

* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:

From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.

* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times citation

, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}