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  • A local journalist who uses the pen name Makama said he counted 36 bodies at the city's central mosque since Sunday.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Sochyile said Makama refused to co-operate with the two men and had thrown the keys to his car away.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Makama was admitted to the Leratong hospital where he is recovering.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Sochyile said the gunmen fled on foot after shooting Makama.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • ANCYL provincial leader Sox Sochyile, said Makama was shot by hi-jackers, who accousted him in front of a house he had been visiting.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • [12] "Makama (plural, Makamat), the Arabic word for a place where people congregate to discuss public affairs, came to be used as the name of a form of poetry midway between the epic and the drama."

    Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

  • Dr. Yusuf Makama said Friday that a truck collided with a 16-seat minibus Thursday evening along a highway in Jigawa state and injured four others.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Dr. Yusuf Makama said Friday that a truck collided with a 16-seat minibus Thursday evening along a highway in Jigawa state and injured four others.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • Thuli Makama, director of the Swaziland Legal Assistance Center, said police are blocking people and buses from traveling between towns.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Dr. Yusuf Makama said Friday that a truck collided with a 16-seat minibus Thursday evening along a highway in Jigawa state and injured four others.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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