Congo

A Central African country with rainforests, the Congo River, and significant oil and timber resources.

Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, faces Kinshasa across the Congo River.

Teko Modise

The best soccer player South Africa has ever produced.

Teko Modise played for Orlando Pirates.

Dyani

Is Xhosa word to categorise Xhosa men abaculelwa uSomagwaza who went to Initiation school apart from boys & men from other tribes.

I'm a Xhosa Dyani✓✓✓

(I'm a Hlubi/Sotho or Zulu Dyani) Hai ninganya minqundu

Sabhongo

Isabhongo is a Xhosa term for that smelly burp, especially after you mix amasi and meat.

What’s that smell? 🤢

Ungodly isabhongo usisi wakho.

Tsotsi Taal

The term directly translate to "Criminal language". This is a vernacular derived from a variety of mixed languages, mainly spoken in the townships all over South Africa.

Each Kasi has its own tsotsi taal or its own way of speaking, meaning tsotsi taal from Soweto might differ from that of Pitori.

Teacher: You cannot speak that Tsotsi Taal in my class. Here we speak proper English.

Amapanyaza

Amapanyaza is the name given to the Gauteng Crime Prevention Wardens who were deployed by the Premier, Panyaza Lesufi.

Amapanyaza are doing a great job in fighting crime in Gauteng.

Mugu

A person who is always doing stupid things.
A foolish person.

Nnenna be mugu oh.

Kota

A quarter loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with combinations of atchar, polony (Bologna), Russian sausages, slap chips, cheese, eggs, chilli sauce and more. A street food / kasi variant of the more suburban bunny chow.

I'm definitely getting myself a kota the next time I visit Gomora.

Ukudla

Ukudla is the formal Zulu term for food.

Ngifuna ukudla kwami.
I want my food.

Bakkie

In South Africa, a bakkie refers to a pick-up truck.

I need to get myself a bakkie for when I go to the villages.

Nkabi

A Zulu term for an assassin or hitman (a person hired to kill another person or a group of people), very popular in the KwaZulu Natal province.

They hired inkabi to kill him but he survived.