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  • In the future locals may not flock to see a make-believe Jacob Zuma who cannot utter a convincing "Sawubona": even well-trained outsiders aren't going to be able to click their way merrily to Qunu, Kani said in a radio interview this week.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2009

  • Sawubona, Sergeant Cooper, Shabalala said, returning the greeting, and they shook hands.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • Sawubona, Sergeant Cooper, Shabalala said, returning the greeting, and they shook hands.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • This partnership would allow Mafube's staff to concentrate on producing magazines like SAA's in-flight publication Sawubona and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • "Sawubona, unjani" is a standard greeting among Zulus, but hearing it from

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Greeting someone with "Sawubona, unjani," isn't unusual if you're black and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The lightheartedness of the new songs freed up the band to deliver its message of "peace, love and harmony" with disarming pleasure. touring Europe and there's never been a better time to say "Sawubona!"

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael Giltz 2011

  • The ambience was bindaas as probably the first Indo-African nightspot opened up with cries of Sawubona (it means 'hello' in Zulu)

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • The ambience was bindaas as probably the first Indo-African nightspot opened up with cries of Sawubona (it means 'hello' in Zulu)

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • The ambience was bindaas as probably the first Indo-African nightspot opened up with cries of Sawubona (it means 'hello' in Zulu)

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

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