Why this word is great
BIJWONER — [Noun] A member of a class of poor white people permitted to inhabit shanties on the property of wealthy Boers in exchange for semifeudal payments. From Afrikaans bijwoner, from Dutch bijwonen ("to be present at, assist") + -er (agent suffix), literally "one who dwells alongside." Unlike "sharecropper" (bound by crop yields) or "squatter" (bound by defiance), the bijwoner was bound by silent complicity, his presence a tolerated shadow on the edges of another man’s dominion. It is the sagging tin roof glimpsed through the dust of a passing wagon, the calloused hands that mend fences they will never own, and the quiet arithmetic of survival that turns a man into a feature of the landscape—proof that poverty, even when sanctioned, still erodes.