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- noun Plural form of
Shangaan .
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Other dam schemes the government is looking at developing are the proposed Gwayi/Umguza and Gwayi/Shangani dams as well as the
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Losses from Shangani, which supplies around 33 per cent of the smelter and refinery's feed requirements, were estimated at approximately 400 tons of nickel.
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In January this year Bindura lost around six weeks 'production from its Shangani mine following an accident with the ore hoisting system.
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On November 29, however, Major Forbes, finding that he could make small progress with the wagons, sent them away, and proceeded with the best mounted men and two Maxims only, so that the actual force which reached the Shangani on the 3rd consisted of about one hundred and sixty men and
The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900
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The Matabele were beaten in two pitched battles: that of the Shangani on October 25, and that of the
The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900
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They also who lie low, they reap the benefit of it, for their story is immortal, and it will be told hundreds of years hence when it matters no more to them whether they died by shot and steel on the banks of the Shangani, or elsewhere in age and sickness.
The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900
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TO make it clear how Major Wilson and his companions came to die on the banks of the Shangani on December 4, 1893, it will be necessary, very briefly, to sketch the events which led to the war between the English settlers in Mashonaland in South Africa and the Matabele tribe, an offshoot of the Zulu race.
The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900
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King Lobengula and his warriors were halted on one bank of the Shangani
Real Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1890
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Shangani [50] River, where they suffered their first defeat.
Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880
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Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing on Tuesday that targeted a new AU base set up last week in the Shangani area of the capital, north of the presidential palace.
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