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Travellers in South Africa (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trekkers

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'travellers' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'south africa' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'south' could be 's' (abbreviation) and 's' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'trekker' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for trekkers that I've seen is " Those on a long and hard walk".)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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