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  • This afternoon, while legislature cleaning staff peeled vegetables and checked the already-brewed umqombothi (Xhosa beer), other assistants put up a huge marquee and traditional entertainers polished their acts.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • MPLs who "over-enjoyed" themselves on the umqombothi.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • When such terrible death has occurred, and when the uncanny Western birth has taken place, a black person cannot appreciate the scientific knowledge involved in brewing umqombothi

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • He is among an army of Langa entrepreneurs, from fruit and vegetable hawkers, to cooks barbecuing meat al fresco to be served with umqombothi, frothy traditional African beer for about $2 (14 rand) a liter.

    The Seattle Times 2010

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