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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sjambok .
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Examples
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Black workers were reprimanded for looking at white women, and those who were granted a disciplinary hearing could choose between being "sjambokked" (whipped) or fired.
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Several burghers here have sent their sons over the border, and promise that the loyal inhabitants will be "sjambokked" (you remember how to pronounce it?) when the Boer force passes through.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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The ministers of education and safety and security have been asked to investigate claims that several school pupils on the Wild Coast were sjambokked by police officers, the Mercury newspaper reported on
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Pollio said she had heard reports that strikers had sjambokked staff trying to get into the hospital on Friday morning but that police had stopped this.
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He said he had received reports on Thursday where a white principal allegedly sjambokked black pupils.
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Zanu-PF supporters reportedly sjambokked people and shut down local businesses in a bid to boost attendance at the rally.
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An e-tv cameraman and a Radio 702 journalist were sjambokked and beaten with sticks.
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Nkambule was found guilty last week of assault after he sjambokked a boy for damaging his car.
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The 12 Mapogo members allegedly beat up and sjambokked suspected burglars at Jane Furse in November 1996.
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The following day one of the pupils were sjambokked by parents for his alleged involvement in the hostage taking.
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