Word of the Day [15 Feb 2026]

Kaizer Chiefs

South African soccer team from Naturena, Soweto. It is arguably the club with the most annoying supporters in South Africa. Kaizer Chiefs fans think their team went to a private school. They think it's the Woolworths of soccer teams.


You also support Kaizer Chiefs? That's why you are so annoying.

Phuza face

It's the face of a person who has been drinking for a long time / a drunkard. That face that looks like leather.


This person is old, can't you see that phuza face?

Covidpreneur

Covidpreneurs are those dodgy tenderpreneurs who loot the government money intended for Covid-19 tenders. They register dodgy businesses and win tenders but they either not deliver at all or they deliver below par results.


Deals that are believed to be worth more than R2.2bn, involving emergency purchases of personal protective equipment (PPE) are being said to be chowed by Covidpreneurs.


Swi

Swi is a Zimbabwean slang term for Alright/Fine.


The poem you wrote ibinguswi

Goduka

Go home!!


Go home now it's getting late.

Goduka ngoku kuyarhatyela


Mjita/out

A guy/ gentleman/clever man


How's it Mjita; 'm just Moja (fine)

Mfanaka

Mfanaka is a Sotho term that loosely translates to "my boy". It is used to mean my friend, my bro.


Eita, dintshang mfanaka?
How's it going, my boy.


Makhwapheni

Umakhwapheni is a more formal term for a side chick or a nyatsi.


His wife saw him at a restaurant with his makhwapheni.

Nondindwa

In Nguni languages, unondindwa is a derogatory term used to refer to a whore or sfebe.


No bro, that girl ngu nondindwa.


Yahoo boy

A guy who carries out 419 fraud on the internet (Those Nigerian prince scams).


I got scammed all my money by a Yahoo boy from Abuja.

Al Ahly

A team that got beaten 5 - 2 by Sundowns (the best football team in Africa)


Don’t worry about that team. It’s an Al Ahly.




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