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  • Affairs would be used to clear invasive species such as pine, bluegums, wattle and blackwood.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • A parks board spokesman said an inspection had revealed the area had been degraded by bluegums and overgrazing prior to the poisoning, and was no longer pristine.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Anna Smith in Johannesburg Street Names says the suburb was always known for its bluegums, planted by JH hardy in 1888, when he built the first house here.

    Joburg.org.za 2010

  • Some of the offspring of those bluegums can still be seen, alongside the beautiful chunky trunks of dozens of plane trees.

    Joburg.org.za 2010

  • I know of no exact parallel to Versh's story, but it is the general sort of tale frequently told about bluegums. eating and drinking: racial etiquette.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977

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