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  • The department last year invited applications from subsistence fishermen for permits for the West Coast rock lobster, better known as crayfish or "kreef" to those who catch them.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Sosaties (skewered meat), kebabs, "crayfish" or kreef in Afrikaans, marinated chicken, pork and lamb chops, steaks, what seemed like ten kinds of Boerewors (sausages) of different flavors and thickness, and five racks of something that looked vaguely like spareribs.

    Josh Tetrick: Why Martin Luther King's Son Doesn't Eat Meat Josh Tetrick 2011

  • Sosaties (skewered meat), kebabs, "crayfish" or kreef in Afrikaans, marinated chicken, pork and lamb chops, steaks, what seemed like ten kinds of Boerewors (sausages) of different flavors and thickness, and five racks of something that looked vaguely like spareribs.

    Josh Tetrick: Why Martin Luther King's Son Doesn't Eat Meat Josh Tetrick 2011

  • A bid to overturn the granting of temporary kreef fishing rights to about 1000 traditional fishers was rejected by the Cape High Court on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Association, representing a number of companies that already hold commercial rights for kreef (rock lobster).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • In a media statement in mid-November last year, Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced the new recreational season for West Coast rock lobster, which locals know better as kreef, and the total allowable catch (TAC)

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Two more quota applications - for kreef and stock fish - are to be heard over the next two days, but Johnson ruled out a further protest, saying that the fishermen had made their point.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • He heard the shrill kreef kreedn kreedn of the tree frogs, the cheep of crickets, the lonely barking of a dog, ghostly and far away; he breathed the air of night, cold, and sweet with honeysuckle.

    Autumn Robert Nathan 1939

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