Definition of "Highveld"

Highveld

/ˈhaɪfɛlt/

proper noun
1. The inland plateau of South Africa and neighbouring countries, containing greater Johannesburg.
  Quotations
  Somewhere early in her childhood, on the farm on the highveld, ‘Matty’ had been created by her as an act of survival.
  1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 13
  The Ben Schoeman highway, a wide barren lane in the mist without any glimpse of the yellow highveld landscape […].
  1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 30