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  • Blacks preferred rallies where they could sing and dance and put on T-shirts to demonstrate their political support, rather than participating in house-meetings, which had a "skelm" connotation,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • They prefer rallies to house meetings, the latter having a ` skelm 'connotation to it.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • "Why was it necessary to know the security arrangements," Bizos asked, "unless somebody wanted to enter it in a ` skelm 'manner."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • There, in front of the people they have treated so shamefully, we can settle whether or not "De Klerk is 'n skelm".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The ludicrous over-reaction of the National Party to "De Klerk is 'n skelm" indicates a certain clutching at straws.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • There, in front of the people they have treated so shamefully, we can settle whether or not "De Klerk is 'n skelm".

    NATIONAL PARTY OVER-REACTION 1993

  • The ludicrous over-reaction of the National Party to "De Klerk is 'n skelm" indicates a certain clutching at straws.

    NATIONAL PARTY OVER-REACTION 1993

  • They've got enough ... they are just plain skelm and greedy.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

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