sjambok

• “The sjambok is the Baas 'cure for the traitor, and sometimes it kills to cure.”

  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

• “They had lived in a land where the sjambok was the symbol of progress.”

  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

• “Instead of using a "sjambok" smokers should be exhorted not to smoke and shown the dangers in and consequences of such a habit.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “I do not know his name, but I heard one of the Boers say, 'That slim duyvel with the sjambok is the new Military Commandant.”

  The Dop Doctor

• “On inquiring how he came to get such a tremendous thrashing, it turned out that these Basutus have a custom of sending young men of a certain age [+] out in couples, each armed with a good "sjambok" (a whip cut from the hide of a sea-cow), to thrash one another till one gives in, and that it was in one of these encounters that the intelligent Scowl got so lacerated; but, as he remarked with a grin, "_My_ back is nothing, the chiefs should see that of the other boy.”

  Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal

• “sjambok" serves as "a little bit of medicine" to cure the culprit,”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “Johnson's promised fuller analysis is now in development, with a Telegraph column suggesting that something subtler than police "sjambok drubbings" may be required.”

  The Guardian: London's missing dimension – serenity | Dave Hill

• “I'll give you sjambok, my lady!" growls I, and lifted her bodily out of the swing, but even as I cast about for galloping room, she left off gnawing at me and panted: "Wait ... let me show you!”

  Fictionaut: THE NUMBERS

• “Then you notice his chest-high sjambok, the traditional whip made of hippopotamus hide, he uses in confrontations with other drivers.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “The man told an horrific story of 'starvation and deaths from exhaustion and whippings on the farm; of work bent over from sunrise to sunset in long rows, picking up the potatoes, while behind them were sjambok-carrying' baas boys 'whipping anyone who straightened up through sheer exhaustion.”

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