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toy-toy

, toyi-toyi South African
a dance expressing defiance and protest
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"A Toyi-toyi is a dance that expresses defiance and protest, it is also important to note that it is usually a non-violent expression of protest.
(27) Toyi-toyi son cantos y bailes asociados a las protestas, introducidos durante la lucha anti-apartheid como parte de la mistica, en particular de la lucha armada del Umkhomto we Siswe (el brazo armado del ANC) en la decada de 1980.
Her story, as told in her autobiography published in 2013, The Verwoerd Who Toyi-Toyied, is a gripping tale of audacity and heroism that deserves to be feted.
(2) 'Toyi-toyi' is the action of singing and dancing in a politically suggestive way as you jog.
Hundred tells Mary of her son's death, helps her find Jesus' body, and himself with the others sings and dances toyi-toyi beneath Jesus' cross and in the face of the forces that would silence them.
Such was certainly the case when NNP canvassers performed a toyi-toyi song to canvass in Westbury, a predominantly Coloured area west of Johannesburg, on 26 March 2004.
The members of SADTU stand out as competent practitioners of the toyi-toyi. We [Mbeki sardonically used the associative "we" in making his points] come across as militant fighters for a better pay check at the end of the month.
People wanted to know if she would join the African National Congress, if she would learn to dance the revolutionary "toyi-toyi," if she would move in with the newly divorced Mandela.
The latter denounces both "negotiation-table manners / fuck-ademics unrolling scrotals of fartastic words / to en-nighten the illiterate" ("In Transition") and "toyi-toyi boys," while Motsapi points out the continuing problems people face in a world of "politricks," "politishams," "non-retiefable thievings of land," "conputers," and so on.
There was no pressing need for the Democrats to learn the Toyi-toyi, party analysts concluded, for they would not be targeting the popular vote.
Just as we were turning to leave, Duncan, a Rastafarian and close friend of the deceased, came alive and lead the uniformed ANC-PAC youth in a high-stepping and militant toyi-toyi, stamping their feet on die earth and chanting, this time in English, while staring fixedly in my direction: "Who's the Killer?
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