Vleis

Mexico are facing Uruguay in an all-important Group A clash and he is likely to need something like 250 kilogrammes of "vleis" and "boerwors". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fossil dunes deposited in the Pleistocene and extensive dambos (shallow, seasonally inundated pans or vleis) that have formed in river valleys and dune troughs are a characteristic feature of the ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As you neared the tree-stripped vleis on the outskirts of Salisbury, there were glimpses of high-density housing and the occasional mud hut or shanty thrown up without the pride of those in the rural districts, followed by suburbs of small, beige houses, where the Coloureds and Indians lived, and the grander spreads of the mainly white areas, where garden boys tended to perfect beds of flowers and children splashed in sparkly aquamarine pools. ❋ Lauren St John (2007)

Incised coastal river valleys filled as sea levels rose during the late Holocene, resulting in the deposition of fertile alluvial material along drainage lines and the formation of pans, swamps, and vleis where drainage lines became submerged. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Surrounding the house on three sides was the game reserve, one hundred wild acres of thorny bush, sun-bleached vleis, deep gullies, great twisted trees, and abandoned mine workings. ❋ Lauren St John (2007)

Numerous grassy wetlands are interspersed along drainage lines in vleis or dambos. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These sands can reach more than 60 m in depth and have relatively high water tables, although most of the dambos (shallow pans or vleis) are permanently dry, and there is an almost complete lack of permanent surface water. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Outside the stadium, street vendors were all smiles as they did brisk trade in pap and vleis, cold drinks, bottles of brandy, beer and ANC paraphernalia. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Gauteng and vleis in the Western Cape which were surrounded by residential areas. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Seen with last year's "pap en vleis" beano at Kempton Park, the NP's unethical campaign was reminiscent of Pavlov's experiments in which animals were conditioned by appealing to their most basic drive, hunger, Dr ❋ Unknown (1994)

Gen Holomisa told his audience of about 500 students the NP would also try to get blacks to eat "pap and vleis" tainted with non-poisonous ink a week or two before the election. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Holomisa warned hundreds of ANC supporters not to "eat pap en vleis of the oppressors". ❋ Unknown (1994)

NP would offer black voters "pap en vleis" tainted with non-poisonous ink, the affidavit read. ❋ Unknown (1994)

The tribunal found Gen Holomisa's statement that the National Party would spike "pap en vleis" with ink and feed it to blacks was inflammatory. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Vetiver has also been planted across wet drainage flats (vleis), where it blocks the runoff, thereby keeping the soils moist for months into the dry season. ❋ Unknown (1993)

But there were clearings in the forest, open vleis filled with grass where buffalo grazed like herds of domestic cattle and white tick birds squawked about them. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)

Over the kopjes, over the vleis, over the veldt a black cloud came down, and suddenly all the picture was blotted out. ❋ Gertrude Page (1897)