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An emphatic filler adding urgency or emphasis, like "please" or "just". From Yoruba.
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Come here jare!
Mampara week is the week before payday, where everyone just doesn’t have money.
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Friend: Let’s go out.
Me: I can’t, you know it’s Mampara Week.
Its more of a word of disbelief or a lie example when someone says something like"oh i'm sure she's a humble girl and doesn't do thing like other people her age" but you know that's not true it like you know something but instead you use the phase "welele" to like tell the other person that it's not true or it's a lie
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"Did you hear that she broke up with her boyfriend again" then someone says "welele" in disbelief
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Features images of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam and local wildlife.
A Tsonga term for "his friend / her friend" that is apparently used to identify unknown soccer players by commentators.
They would call all the names of the "famous" players and when they reach the unknown player, they would say mngani wa yena (his friend).
They would call all the names of the "famous" players and when they reach the unknown player, they would say mngani wa yena (his friend).
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And he passes the ball to Jabu Pule... Jabu Pule passes to mngani wa yena.
Bedfordview is an affluent suburb in western Ekurhuleni, sharing an administrative boundary with the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. Bedfordview has been part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000.
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We are going to Eastgate mall in Bedfordview.
A stokvel is a savings pool where a group of individuals contribute an agreed-upon monthly amount. The group have full control of how they would like to use that money. Two common methods are to pay out monthly or annually. The group can make monthly pay-outs, or they could keep investing their savings and get a lump sum at the end of the year.
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I have joined a stockvel with the members of my community where we get monthly payouts.
Is a name given to a child or children born from South Africa Lady who date a Nigerian guy.
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How are your jollofites doing?
Ubuntu
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The belief in our shared humanity, kindness, compassion and the idea that we become better through caring for and supporting one another.
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Her willingness to help a stranger showed true ubuntu
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