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  • noun Plural form of sjambok.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile Labour Whips are doubtless oiling their sjamboks and knouts as I write.

    Referendum News 2007

  • Meanwhile Labour Whips are doubtless oiling their sjamboks and knouts as I write.

    Archive 2007-08-19 2007

  • Some, carrying sjamboks and a knobkerrie, danced in the street under the watchful eye of police.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • "They threw stones at these people, shot at them, whipped some of them with sjamboks and robbed them," said Inspector Moses Maphakela.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Eleven people were killed, scores were beaten with sjamboks, arrested and sentenced to prison.

    CONTENTS: 2006

  • Eleven people were killed, scores were beaten with sjamboks, arrested and sentenced to prison.

    ANC Today 2006

  • Eleven people were killed, scores were beaten with sjamboks, arrested and sentenced to prison.

    The day the enemy struck us a blow 2006

  • Eleven people were killed, scores were beaten with sjamboks, arrested and sentenced to prison.

    ANC Today 2006

  • "We are happy to report that no children were injured and there were only a few bruises that were taken care of by the emergency services that were in the midst with ambulances," Mkhabela said, while refuting media reports that teargas and sjamboks were used to calm the crowd.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • But all the teargas they swallowed, all the sjamboks, all of that didn't stop them from their work in some of the most ghastly surroundings.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

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