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  • noun A spicy African vegetable relish traditionally served with bread, pap, samp, stews, and curries.

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Examples

  • Kalahari Moon of St Nicholas market will be supplying traditional South African treats such as chakalaka and Boerewors, where as Afro Delight and Glens (two well loved St Paul's eateries) will be supplying Jamaican grub

    Indymedia Ireland Daniel Beaton 2010

  • Kalahari Moon of St Nicholas market will be supplying traditional South African treats such as chakalaka and Boerewors, where as Afro Delight and Glens (two well loved St Paul's eateries) will be supplying Jamaican grub

    Indymedia Ireland Daniel Beaton 2010

  • Ndlovu's speciality are thick sausages known as wors and a spicy home-made relish called chakalaka that he buys in bulk a day before the match.

    Arab Times Kuwait English Daily SuperUser Account 2010

  • Ndlovu's speciality are thick sausages known as wors and a spicy home-made relish called chakalaka that he buys in bulk a day before the match.

    Arab Times Kuwait English Daily SuperUser Account 2010

  • An irresistible chakalaka of religion, politics, patriotism and soccer mania is simmering as we take our seats.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • Ndlovu's speciality are thick sausages known as wors and a spicy home-made relish called chakalaka that he buys in bulk a day before the match.

    iac world news feed 2010

  • Top it off with South Africa's salsa, chakalaka, made by finely chopping tomatoes, onions and small green chilis and then lettingthem sit in vinegar, olive oil and salt.

    Brudirect News1 Renee Bonorchis 2010

  • We have biltong and boerewors, pap and vleis, curry and rice and samoosas and rotis and chakalaka.

    Muti 2008

  • We have biltong and boerewors, pap and vleis, curry and rice and samoosas and rotis and chakalaka.

    Muti 2008

  • Dance music blared from speakers and the birthday girl’s aunts began dishing overflowing mounds of food onto plates: chicken, beef, rice, pap, chakalaka a spicy salad made of cooked vegetables, mashed beetroots, mashed potatoes.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

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  • Pap is good. Samp, I don't know from.

    March 4, 2011