How To Use Matabele In A Sentence
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The Matabele have been behaving very badly since they lost the election.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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“Along a road in Matabeleland, barefoot children stuff their pockets with corn kernels that have blown off a truck as if the brownish bits, good only for animal feed in normal times, were gold coins,” reads this New York Times story on a stark situation in which “the half-starved haunt the once bountiful landscape of Zimbabwe, where a recent United Nations survey found that 7 in 10 people had eaten either nothing or only a single meal the day before.”
2009 February 02 « Scavenging
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Coltart would like to start introducing education reforms — adding human-rights courses to the curriculum and getting Zimbabwean schools to address such controversial issues as the military’s massacre of thousands of civilians in Matabeleland in southern Zimbabwe in 1983.
Frenemies of the State
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Shamuyarira said the government had distributed more food relief to Matabeleland, which is shaping up as a key battleground for the parliamentary elections, because it was severely affected by drought and added that the government was ready to release figures on food hand-outs.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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For years Mzilikazi, leader of the Ndebele people, had banned visitors and hunters from his kingdom in the hot, dry south of the country, an area known as Matabeleland, but when he lifted the ban in 1865, Henry Hartley, the son of an 1820 Settler and a white hunter famed for his ability to wipe out staggeringly large numbers of elephants, was one of the first to travel up from South Africa.
Rainbow’s End
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It's his private army to crush political opposition -- the Shona hate the Matabele.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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From 1983 to 1987 the 5th Brigade were given a free hand to rid Matabeleland of the perceived threat.
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He formerly commanded the army's Fifth Brigade, widely held responsible for the massacres of Matabeleland rebels.
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He rose to become the commander of Nkomo's military forces and was known as the uncrowned king of Matabeleland.
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During the two-day festivities at Barbourfields stadium, politicians and business leaders, city workers and Matabeleland villagers, ate and mingled.
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Matabeleland, which is home to Zimbabwe's minority Ndebele - speaking population, was a stronghold of Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union.
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