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  • He said the name Maraba - referring to an old chiefdom - had also been discussed, but was not as popular.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • "During my residence in Damascus, I tried one or two villages in the neighbourhood as a summer retreat, and at length fixed upon a village called Maraba, as being at a convenient distance from the city to ride there in the morning and return at night.

    The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Various

  • Before the loan was approved, a World Bank auditor warned, "[Bertin's Maraba slaughterhouse expansion] project poses a grave risk to the environment and to the Bank's reputation."

    Rachel Cernansky: World Bank Withholds (Some) Funding for Deforestation 2009

  • The farm, will be handed over to Strategic Farm Management (SFM) as part of an interim caretakership arrangement, and later transferred to the Letebele, Mpuru and Maraba community.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The land would be transferred to the Letebele, Mpuru and Maraba

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Maraba is a place where survivors, aware that coffee may be their future, are reluctant to dwell on the past.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Habimana, the executive secretary of the Maraba collective.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Maraba coffee farmer Gemma Wera, a mother of eight, said the collective had been key to reducing ethnic animosity in the community that surged in other parts of the country when village tribunals began hearing genocide cases earlier this year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • "All the collectives are based on the model of the Maraba collective and they all send their agronomists to Maraba to learn how to cultivate specialty coffee," said Tim Schilling, head of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • BILCHIK: Torz also said the Maraba coffee is no more expensive than any other on the market, and says the quality is superlative.

    CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2003 2003

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