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- noun Plural form of
kierie .
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Examples
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Ek merk toe dat 'n aantal besig was om hom met stene te kap en met kieries te slaan.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Most of them were elderly people and mostly just tsotsis because they were wielding knives and kieries and stopping people, you know, saying that they must lift up their arms in the Black Power salute and you find that sometimes when people did that, they ripped off their watches from their hands an they stoned the cars.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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The attackers are said to have been clad in blue overalls and were armed with pangas, assegais and knob-kieries.
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Col Prinsloo said that after the group was evacuated from the church, police confiscated a variety of weapons, including a pistol, pangas, kives and knob-kieries.
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Stones were thrown at the window, and she opened the door to find about 20 men in red headbands and armed with kieries and pangas.
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He then recounted the history of killings since 1984, saying that by August 1990, 6000 people had died in killings that involved axes, assagais, pangas and kieries.
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Today men wearing headbands and smashing the skulls of people with knob kieries or knives and choppers are not arrested nor are they condemned by the
SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE ANC, NELSON MANDELA, TO MAY DAY RALLY 1991
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Today men wearing headbands and smashing the skulls of people with knob kieries or knives and choppers are not arrested nor are they condemned by the
SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE ANC, NELSON MANDELA, TO MAY DAY RALLY 1991
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Besides the injuries inflicted on her face and torso by boots and kieries [clubs], her right arm was broken in three places.
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For now, the impact of the strike is being felt by ordinary people, including the school pupils who were attacked with knob-kieries in the streets.
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