"kitskonstabel" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Afrikaans kits (“instant”) + konstabel (“constable”).",
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          "ref": "1996 June 18, “Submission, questions and answers”, in Truth and Reconciliation Commission, archived from the original on 2004-03-17",
          "text": "During 1987 sixteen kitskonstabels were sent to Bhongolethu to police the area after their six weeks of training. The kitskonstabels proved to be a law unto themselves - between September 1987 and January 1988 less than six months, at least six activist were injured by kitskonstabels a remarkable series of incidents, involving the kitskonstabels was recorded by the police themselves in the Bhongolethu police station incident book.",
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          "ref": "1997 April 3, “KITSKONSTABEL ACTIONS TO BE HEARD AT GRAHAMSTWON TRC HEARINGS”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2005-01-18",
          "text": "The activities of the South Africa Police's notorious apartheid-era \"kitskonstables\" will come under the spotlight at the three-day hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Grahamstown next week, from April 7 to 9. The kitskonstables (special constables) were infamous for random beatings and shootings in the Grahamstown area during the 1980s.",
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          "ref": "1998, Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull",
          "text": "Harrington’s hero was Major Deon Terreblanche – notorious for his killing sprees. ‘He was actually like my father. He was interested in my work. He always wanted to know how I was. He told me I personally have to fight against the ANC, because they were communists. He said he would see to it that I never get into trouble.’ But a kitskonstabel with ANC sympathies killed Terreblanche.",
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