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  • proper noun The chief deity in traditional Xhosa religion.

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Examples

  • Councillor Qamata visualised a South Africa in which all its citizens would enjoy equal rights - a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it, and therefore a non-racial and non-sexist South Africa.

    Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Celebration of Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday 2008

  • Spondo said the task team visited the Matanzima family at Qamata in a mission to find out how the provincial government could assist with the family's needs for the funeral.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Matanzima, who belonged to the same Thembu kraal as former president Nelson Mandela, would be laid to rest on Sunday at Qamata

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Addressing thousands of mourners, he said Matanzima had provided the people of Qamata with education and jobs under his leadership.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Ncora and Qamata, local government and housing MEC Gugile Nkwinti in Port Elizabeth, and safety liaison and transport MEC Dennis Neer in Senqu.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • This is the Ethiopian Church, which associated itself with the ancient name of Ethiopia because it sought to put on a high pedestal the reality, the originality and the nobility of African spirituality; because it sought to reaffirm that Africa’s people are among those whom Nkulunkulu, Modimo, Dal’ubom, Xikwembu, Qamata and Jehovah blessed and enjoined to be fruitful and to multiply.

    STATEMENT AT THE CENTENARY SYNOD OF THE ETHIOPIAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH – UMZI WASE TIYOPIYA/MOTSE WA TOPIA 2000

  • "We normally have a most pleasant stay at Qamata and we are not trying to score cheap political points."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Buthelezi, who also attended a welcome-home celebration at Qamata in western Transkei.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Like Van Schalkwyk in Qamata, parties see the support of traditional leaders as important: the Inkatha Freedom Party felt it had scored a coup when it paraded a number of Bhaca chiefs from the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Matanzima's Qamata home a port of call when they were canvassing votes in Western Tembuland.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

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