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Speaking of you, Death, in your own language "kufa", Professor Otty Nxumalo is unrelenting of your scything action when he poetically said.
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Note 100: Kuhanya i kufa, a common saying meaning that life or living [kuhanya] is a challenge.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Women, propelled by the progressive and the militant slogan: “Wathint ` abafazi, wathint ` imbokotho - uza kufa Strijdom”, organized the ever-historic march against the infamous pass laws in 1956 where more than 20 000 women participated.
August 2006 2006
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Kuluntu ngokubanzi masincedisane nalamadela-kufa, oomabamba isikhali ngobubanzi baso ngokuzijula ijacu, bekhonzela isizwe xa iinjubaqa ziphazamisa ucwangco.
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And in the Iraqi city of kufa, U.S. troops fighting with forces loyal to wanted Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, two American soldiers were killed in an overnight clash there.
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The characteristic craft for local service in the immediate environment of Bagdad is the _kufa_, a circular boat of basket-work covered with bitumen, often of a size sufficient to carry five or six horses and a dozen men.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The _kufa_ was made of rushes daubed with bitumen, and sometimes covered with a skin.
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In the figure of a _kufa_, or round boat, already given, it will be seen that one oar is worked by means of a thong, like the [--] or [--] of the
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I sincerely feel sorry for her, it cant be easy knowing wava kufa but eish, ndava kufinhwa nekumuona
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