Category: People
A Sangoma is a highly respected healer among the Zulu people of South Africa who diagnoses, prescribes, and often performs the rituals to heal a person physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.
Example
I need to go see a powerful Sangoma.
Inyanga is mostly a traditional herbalist and does not usually perform rituals that are common to those that a Sangoma performs.
Example
I went to see Inyanga when I was not feeling well.
In Xhosa, umgqakhwe is a derogatory term used to refer to someone born out of wedlock.
Example
"Makungangeni mgqakhwe ebandleni likaYehova; nesizukulwana sawo seshumi masingangeni ebandleni likaYehova." - deuteronomy 23
"No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation."
Tse nzima is a word used to describe people who are good at something. It is normally used as a compliment.
Example
If you get the girl your friends can say to you
Tse Nziiiiiiiima.
Material Don Dada was a Skhothane that was once the coolest kid in Mzansi, a title now owned by Uncle Vinny.
Nguni, cluster of related Bantu-speaking ethnic groups living in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
They speak Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele.
They speak Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele.
Example
We should unite as Nguni people and stop this tribalism.
A word the "Mapulane" adults use to refer to a girl.
Example
Heh Ngeku dula fase.
*You girl, Sit down*
A SePitori word that usually refers to a guy that can handle difficult situations, or is brave enough to do things other people can't do.
It could also mean someone who is well respected because of his status in society.
It could also mean someone who is well respected because of his status in society.
Example
Mpho ke lepara joe, he just approached that hot girl sitting over there.
Example
I have to go see abazwayi in December
Umkhwetha (plural: abakhwetha) is an initiate (a boy going through the circumcisions/initiation period) in Xhosa.
Example
Umkhwetha has to eat food without salt for the first few days
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