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Tembisa

Tembisa or Thembisa is a large township situated to the north of Kempton Park on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa.

Tembisa is my Kasi. 1632 for life.

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Boksburg

Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W. Eduard Bok.

I can't wait to visit my brother in Boksburg.

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Bathong

Word used to express disbelief, surprise, dissatisfaction.

Bathong, that's so crazy.

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Afrikaaps

Afrikaaps is a slang version of Afrikaans, spoken in Cape Town.

I proudly speak Afrikaaps.

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Nguni

Nguni, cluster of related Bantu-speaking ethnic groups living in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
They speak Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele.

We should unite as Nguni people and stop this tribalism.

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Kotini

Local term for cotton.

Sidl'ukotini kwedini.

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Qabula

Ukuqabula is an informal Xhosa term for taking out babalaas. Basically the act of drinking the morning after a heavy night of drinking.

I'm dying from babalaas now, ndifuna ukuqabula.

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Mamzo

Mamzo is a kasi slang term for mom or mother.

Eish sorry mamzo, I won’t do it again.

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Beyps

An informal way to say "babes", mostly used by Xhosa women when talking to each other or about each other.

Yho beyps, the way I've been missing my Ben 10 these days.

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Jollof boys

Jollof boys is a name given to Nigerian men in South Africa.

Who drives that Range Rover.
It's owned by this other Jollof boy who works in Hillbrow.

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