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  • verb Present participle of sjambok.

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Examples

  • Barbaric and inhuman methods such as sjambokking, burning and killing in the manner of the vigilante groups undermine our democracy and our collective human rights.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • GRAHAMSTOWN (ECN) - A leading Alexandria farmer has reacted angrily to ANC claims that 700 farmworkers were prevented from registering to vote and were threatened with sjambokking and dismissal.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The North West attorney-general had yet to decide whether to prosecute 18 white Vryburg residents charged with the alleged sjambokking of black school children earlier this year, Safety and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Police could however not link the suspects to the torching of mayor Nomsa Madonsela's house or the abduction and public sjambokking of deputy mayor Thulisile Sithole.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The next day white parents arrived at the school and started sjambokking black pupils.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • "We were used to torture methods such as electrocution, the helicopter method, burning, breaking arms, assault, sjambokking, tubing and wet bags.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

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