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  • The party had overcome what Duarte described as "Zuma gevaar& uot; and" Constitution gevaar "as it navigated its way through the controversial pre-election dropping of corruption charges against Zuma.

    News24 2009

  • Dit was nou vir my baie duidelik dat die lede en veral die Blankes se lewens in gevaar was.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • [O] ns was [in gevaar] — ek wil net daar verduidelik dat — net die toneel so min of meer vir u beskryf, dit is ongelukkig so dat die straat aan die linkerkant is daar 'n streep huise, aan die regterkant is die skool, klipkoppietjies, en nog huise, daar is nie' n pad na regs uit nie.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Much having been articulated from all the angles one notes that we are faced with a new 'gevaar' - the danger of relegating serious theatre.

    Contents 1995

  • This smacks too much of the "swart gevaar" black threat paranoia that was the mood of the apartheid leaders for too many years in South Africa.

    Stephen Downes, connectivism and second life 2007

  • Volgens my mening was ons lewe toe in uiterste gevaar … Ons het hierdie kinders geen rede gegee om ons aan te rand of om ons voertuie te beskadig nie.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • For long periods, this section of our population has been subjected to the unimaginable terrors of 'die swart gevaar' and 'die rooi gevaar', the 'black' and 'red' dangers ...

    ANC Today 2007

  • Rather, the problem is that entrenched racism dictates that justification must be found for the persisting white fears of "die swart gevaar".

    ANC Today 2007

  • Mbalula likened talk that Zuma would be charged with corruption to the "swart gevaar" of old.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • It would be protected from the 'swart gevaar' both by its own strong security forces, which PW Botha had built into a formidable force as Minister of

    ANC Today 2006

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