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Skopas

Term mostly used in the Northern parts of the country to refer to sweet flavoured and coloured popcorns.
Some parts of the country call them amaKip-kip

I bought my nephews some skopas from the Spaza shop.

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Tsek

Tsek is a shortened version of Voetsek, an insulting dismissal or exclamation of disgust.

Tsek wena, I don't want to talk to you.

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Botty

These word BOTTY stand for a person which comes from a rich background

Soyinka is a botty boy

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amapakati

Xhosa plural for a chief’s counsellors. The singular is ipakati. From pachatu an ancient Babylonia word for governor.

My ancestors were amapakati of Chief Ngqika.

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Diski

Kasi term that refers to soccer/football.

Everyone in my neighbourhood loves diski.

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Unotshe

Unotshe is a Xhosa interjection that means never or can be used as "over my dead body". It is pronounced as uno-chair.

I will not allow you to marry my daughter. Unotshe!

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Zuka

A term we used to use back in the day to refer to the 50c coin. Ama2000 would not know it.

No one:

5 year old me: Ndicela noba yi zuka to buy sweets.

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Benin

A West African country known as the birthplace of voodoo, with historical kingdoms and growing cotton industry.

We studied the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in what is now modern Benin.

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Dumpie

A dumpie is a term that refers to a 340ml beer or cider.

I prefer drinking dumpie over a ngudu.

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Ingwe

Ingwe in a Xhosa and Zulu word for a leopard.

Ingwe idla ngamabala.

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