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- noun South Africa
Maize .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Payments in kind such as mielie meal, bread and milk amounting to
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They have an interesting type of "mielie" (corn) here, that is black-very weird smell!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Using a "mielie bag" analogy, he explained that what's happening in the markets now can be compared to a farmer who produced only 100 bags of mielies a year, but consumed 108, borrowing the other eight from his neighbour.
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The commission was currently investigating the price-fixing of bread, mielie meal and dairy products involving Premier Foods, Tiger
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Mashi went missing on Saturday and his body was found in a mielie field on Thursday.
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It was estimated that 61 percent of the maize growing area was planted with white maize, the source of mielie-meal for human consumption, compared with 53 percent the previous year.
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Ferreira said the white maize crop, the source of mielie-meal for human consumption, was especially at risk.
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He said the Afrikaans media and their intellectuals operated inside a "mielie driehoek" (mealie triangle) mentality which was only real between Potchefstroom, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.
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Renewed random shootings kept the terrified villagers out of their homes at night and away from the mist-covered mielie plantations that have become fields of terror and murder.
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He said David Masilo and Metoa were arrested by police at 3am on Monday and were found in a mielie field.
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