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Before she left Facazisse, N'waMangaviyane put these fields (one nyaka, one ntlhava) into the hands of her late brother's wife, who was living in Magude town.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Lenders 'mounting frustration, exacerbated by the shortage of other land for them to farm, dovetailed with more widespread concern over the scarcity of nyaka plots, the multiplication of mindzelekana disputes (see below), and the rising incidence of crop and livestock theft in the area.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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In the 1950s, while living with her sister in Chobela, Albertina opened a nyaka plot in an unused corner of Xikosi's property.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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In the meantime, local agricultores were beginning to replace lost equipment and cattle and to look hungrily for nyaka land, sharing the desire of small-scale farmers to return agricultural production to prewar levels.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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He identified the prime farmland around the stationin particular, the fertile nyaka soils along the Nkomati's banksas the key to making the men of Khoseni "useful to their country."
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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In the meantime, many married church women with full granaries, often retaining (unchallenged) idle fields of their own, were grumbling that they did not have "enough" land for their family, and speculating about the devious measures neighbors were using to keep valuable nyaka from those who truly needed it.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Gubani owayesazi ngo nyaka ka 1956 xa oomama baphuma uphulo beyokukhalaza kabuhlungu phambi ko Strydom kwi Union Building bekhalazela amalungelo abo, ukuba namhlanje bakube bexhamla iziqhamo zenkululeko ku Mzantsi Afrika omtsha.
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Baga Mohlala ba ba nyaka R10. 900 go ka ba lokollela ta bona te 11 dikgomo.
Statement by Bishop LJ Tolo on challenges of livestock farmers 2007
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Somlomo xa sithi ngalo nyaka ka 2007 sivuyisana nomhla wesibozo ka March singu Mzantsi Africa.
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They shared six plots but were cultivating only three: a small ntlhava field beside their home, a nyaka plot on Xikosi's old property, and a strip garden (for sweet potatoes) borrowed from a female friend.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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