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Show me your number
Show me your number is a popular soccer/football skill in South Africa, where the player pretends to shoot the ball and the defender ducks, hence showing his/her number to the attacker.
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Ku Bird
Ku bird is a term that means "it's bad". Like when the situation gets really really bad. People use "bird" because it sounds the same as "bad".
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Algiers
Algeria's whitewashed capital with French colonial boulevards.
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Manzi
A girl or young woman.
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Umgxobhozo
Umgxobhozo yindawo echifichifi ngenxa yodaka namanzi, emva kokuba kunethe imvula ngamandla. In English umgxobhozo is a swamp.
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Oga
Boss or someone in authority. Borrowed from Nigerian pidgin.
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icatchile idyan
This means that the dyan has caught feelings.
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Hurda
The act of breaking someone's heart either through cheating or any malpractice that automatically leads the end of a relationship. Often used in a phrase "ba tlao hurda" meaning they will hurt you
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