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Examples
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"No sharpened sticks, no assegaais, no knobkieries," said Cele.
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They agree to close, or convert hostels to family units and to ban the carrying of dangerous weapons, apart from assegaais and sticks, in public in unrest areas.
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They agree to close, or convert hostels to family units and to ban the carrying of dangerous weapons, apart from assegaais and sticks, in public in unrest areas.
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But police would allow people to carry assegaais, spears, sticks, knobkerries and battle axes, classified as traditional weapons.
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While we recognise the right of cultural groups to carry traditional weapons, the brandishing of dangerous weapons such as spears, assegaais and axes cannot be allowed.
THE DEPLOYMENT OF SECURITY FORCES IN PREPARATION FOR THE IFP MARCH 1996
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While we recognise the right of cultural groups to carry traditional weapons, the brandishing of dangerous weapons such as spears, assegaais and axes cannot be allowed.
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Armed with firearms, knobkerries, spears and assegaais a group of a few hundred men from the KwaMadala hostel near Boipatong indiscriminately attacked and killed men, women and children.
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The Inkatha Institute has questioned the validity of ANC president Nelson Mandela's claims last weekend that 13000 people have been killed since 1984 by assegaais, sticks, knobkerries and battle axes.
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He stressed the group would not "probe armed struggle violence but only internecine violence -- from violence committed by necklacing to assegaais and spears".
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