A term we used to use back in the day to refer to the 50c coin. Ama2000 would not know it.
Example
No one:
5 year old me: Ndicela noba yi zuka to buy sweets.
It is not Xhosa but Zulu phrase meaning to disapprove an act. It goes together with phrases like, kahle no, musa bo, woza bo, mana no, etc
Example
Hhayi bo wnzani?
Mjondolo is another term for informal settlements (mkhukhu).
Example
There is an movement called Abahlali basemjondolo
ibhantinti is another term for a prisoner.
Example
He got arrested last year, libhantinti ngoku.
A Skelm is a South African term for a tsotsi, rascal, thief, crook, all the baf things.
Example
Get out of here, you skelm.
Ityhagi is a derogatory term used to refer to a boy. Like an uncircumcised boy.
Example
I will not take directions from ityhagi.
Example
yhu lihule usisi wakho.
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