Example sentences for: johannesburg

How can you use “johannesburg” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Johannesburg Star said that "Mugabe's arrogant disregard for the health of the economy was astonishing," adding that he had failed to consider any of the economic consequences of two politically motivated decisions: 1) ordering his finance minister to "find" the money to pay 50,000 war veterans unbudgeted gratuities and pensions and 2) ordering the seizure of half the country's privately owned farmland, most of which was owned by whites.

  • In South Africa, which recently banned Hong Kong chickens, the Johannesburg Star reported that a woman had been "trampled and kicked" to death by an ostrich at a farm near Cape Town while her husband, already badly injured by the same bird, lay helplessly by "for hours" on a dirt road.

  • In Johannesburg yesterday, rebel leaders who tried to topple the Congolese government of Laurent Kabila, drawing five countries into a war in the process, signed a cease-fire.

  • Meanwhile, according to the Johannesburg Star, South Africa banned imports of Chinese poultry to keep out chicken flu, but was threatened with a European ban on its ostrich-meat exports unless it could wipe out a poultry disease of its own within six months.

  • a Moroccan Jew from Casablanca a Rhodesian policeman a Boer farmer from just outside Johannesburg an Egyptian taxi-driver


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