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  • "It is very, very hard to imagine not being able to pick up your [sick] kids because you're afra id of losing your job or you are afraid of not getting paid."

    City's Sick-Pay Plan: 2010

  • To afra and em, Why didn't you use your moslem names??

    legitgov 2009

  • There are also Cape horseshoe bat Rhinolophus capensis, spectacled dormouse Graphiuris ocularis, the regionally endemic Cape gerbil Tatera afra and several threatened amphibians.

    Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

  • The vegetation contains a high proportion of both leaf and stem-succulent shrubs such as Spekboom (Portulacaria afra), Euphorbia bothae (dominant along the Fish River Valley), Euphorbia ledienii and Noorsdoring (Euphorbia coerulescens) (dominant along the Sundays River Valley).

    Albany thickets 2008

  • The thicket vegetation of the intermontane valleys to the north and west of the ecoregion is a dense shrubland dominated by Spekboom (Portulacaria afra).

    Albany thickets 2008

  • Other endemics and near-endemics found within the ecoregion as a whole are Panicum arbusculum, Stachys burchelliana, Schotia afra, Berkheya chamaepeuce, Barleria lichtensteiniana, Euphorbia gariepina, E. gregaria, E. avasmontana, Zygophyllum dregeanum, and Z. microcarpum.

    Namibian savanna woodlands 2008

  • The eastern zone is often furnished with mountains, well wooded with evergreen succulent trees, on which neither fire nor droughts can have the smallest effect (‘Strelitzia’, ‘Zamia horrida’, ‘Portulacaria afra’, ‘Schotia speciosa’, ‘Euphorbias’, and ‘Aloes arborescens’); and its seaboard gorges are clad with gigantic timber.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • We also isolated several compounds from the crude root bark extract of Artemisia afra Wild (Composite) (same genus as Artemisia annua, the source of artemisinine) but none of the isolated compounds had any marked activity (Kinabo, 1989).

    Chapter 7 1991

  • 'I can't do that, I'm afra d,' he says, all of ficiallike.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • Afrikaans name for Portulacaria afra, a succulent tree known for its enormous carbon-storing capabilities.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

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