Sentence:  Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this <WSD>dustbowl</WSD>, which is host to more than a million people relocated from "white" farms and "black spots" in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.