A Northeast African country on the Red Sea with Italian colonial architecture and recent independence.
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Asmara, Eritrea's capital, is known for its well-preserved Italian modernist buildings.
(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
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We use a lot of colloquial terms in our everyday lingo.
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Kreng kreng is finishing the youth of Pretoria
An expression of surprise or shock (basically means wow), mostly used by Xhosa speaking people. It can also be spelt as Hayibo.
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Haibo, is this really happening?
A Gun Dubula is a person in Kasi who carries a gun and shoots people (trigger happy).
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Do you remember that Gun Dubula who jumped the school fence and shot a rival gang member who was writing exams?
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Yho I haven’t seen la poni in a while.
Dhloogle is a term used on X, formerly Twitter to refer to Sizwe Dhlomo’s tendency of “knowing” everything under the sun. You can ask him anything and he will have an answer. No articles, no references, just him being sure about everything.
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Guy 1: I just heard that in 1994, ANC won the elections but Nelson Mandela made the call to give it to the IFP for stability.
Guy 2: where did you hear that?
Guy 1: From Dhloogle.
The kwacha (ZMW) is the official currency of Zambia. The name “kwacha” comes from the Bemba and Nyanja word for "dawn," which symbolizes the "new dawn of freedom" that came with Zambia's independence in 1964.
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I just won 5000 Kwacha on Betway.
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