[f. Du. volk people, FOLK sb. + raad senate, council, REDE sb.] The chief legislative assembly in either of the former South African republics of the Transvaal or the Orange Free State.
1852. C. Barter, Dorp & Veld, xiii. 194. A resolution of the ‘Volksraad,’ that no additional natives should be allowed to take up their residence within the colony.
1865. Chambers’s Encycl., VII. 25/2. While the volksraad, or peoples’ council [of Orange River Free State], exercise legislative functions.
1881. Earl Selborne, in Personal & Pol. Mem. (1898), II. 5. The Volksraad must yield, or the war be renewed.
