sjambok

Silently she proceeded to hit him with a sjambok over his body for quite some time.

Crush injury secondary to sjambok beatings is a well-described phenomenon in southern Africa.

PETER: It was originally called Sjambok but it was on the hardstand in the Philippines and called Lucky when we bought it.

It is in this same town that a domestic worker was beaten with a sjambok by a white man whose excuse was that he thought she was a sex worker.

Again, recalling how his father used to subject members of the household to severe beatings, Eeben notes: 'When I fetched Mafimane it turned out Pa wanted to show me how to vat so 'n byt--take a bite--out of a person's ear with a sjambok" (95).

Chilford obtains his large knobkerrie from behind his makeshift desk and slowly advances toward the kitchen entrance as the footsteps come nearer He lifts his sjambok and is about to swing it when Mai Tamba screams--

Others, notably one 'Sjambok' in the next number of The African Monthly, decried the author's "mesmeric power".

(52) By the end of the scene, however, Klytemnestra's self-doubt vanished; her final words to Elektra threatened, "You will be the first to die" (43), accompanied by a distinctively South African weapon, the sjambok whip used by Boer on black since the days of slavery.

Risk groups include those who have been assaulted with blunt objects ('sjambok injury') or those with blunt multiple injury.

It harks back through the inclusion of two poems from earlier collections: "As I walk with effrontery, alone" from Sjambok and other poems from Africa (Livingstone, 1964) and "Steel giraffes" from Eyes closed against the sun (Livingstone, 1970).