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Both the British and the Germans enrolled local troops called askaris a Kiswahili word meaning soldier, but usually only applied to native troops.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Both the British and the Germans enrolled local troops called askaris a Kiswahili word meaning soldier, but usually only applied to native troops.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Sipho Phungulwa and Luthando Dyasophu, former exiles who defected and became "askaris".
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At the time the word "askaris" had never been used.
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The death squad units utilised turned African National Congress guerrillas, known as "askaris".
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The war brought money and an opportunity for military service for 98,000 men, called "askaris".
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Youth leaders around the country began calling them cockroaches or, worse, askaris and impimpis — the same words that in the apartheid years had described traitors and spies within the movement.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Zuma was part of an effort, called Mbokodo (crushing boulder), to identify and eliminate impimpis and askaris, as the spies and traitors were known, in part through a series of brutal interrogations and summary executions.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Youth leaders around the country began calling them cockroaches or, worse, askaris and impimpis — the same words that in the apartheid years had described traitors and spies within the movement.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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Zuma was part of an effort, called Mbokodo (crushing boulder), to identify and eliminate impimpis and askaris, as the spies and traitors were known, in part through a series of brutal interrogations and summary executions.
Jacob’s Ladder 2009
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