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- noun Plural form of
kwerekwere .
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Examples
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Johannesburg means the end of his protection from youths who have vowed to finish off "amakwerekwere" (foreigners).
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Being called amakwerekwere, "a pejorative word for foreigner, he said.
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Several other policemen joined them, he says, and proceeded to shock him with cattle prods and taunt him, calling him "amakwerekwere", a derogatory name for foreigners.
IOL: News 2010
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"Why when they enter do they shout for amakwerekwere?" he questioned.
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Then I saw them come in with pangas and stones and could hear them shouting for the amakwerekwere.
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Esta Mutambara, originally from Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lives a few blocks from where the Zimbabwean men were forced to jump and is regularly taunted as an amakwerekwere, an abusive term for foreign nationals.
IRIN 2009
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"They blew vuvuzelas and were singing songs and shouting 'shaya amakwerekwere' (hit the foreigners).
IOL: News 2009
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People call us names like amakwerekwere [people who speak gibberish], who are coming to take away opportunities and local women, "he told IRIN.
Afrik.com : Africa and Maghreb's news our partner IRIN 2009
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Some say when the foreign visitors and spectators leave they will drive the amakwerekwere away back to their own countries, "she said.
IRIN 2009
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