Urarekile means He or She is surprised
Example
Nomama Naye urarekile nakamthola enza so
Pronunciation
by Anti Devil
Usorhulu is a elder Brother of Person's Father
Example
Usorhulu Ungifundise ukureya
Usorhulu taught Me to drive
Vakamorah
NEW
A Vakamorah is a person who left his Kasi - his village, his roots, his dust, his people in Kameelrivier B, Siyabuswa - and went to grind in the big cities of South Africa: Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town.
He left with a promise that he will come back to build. His Kasi prayed for him, his mother blessed him, his friends gave him farewell.
But after he found his feet in the city, after he got a job, a room, a car, a new life - he never came back home to build. He never laid a brick. He never fixed the gate. He never invested back. He never poured back into the soil that raised him. He grinds for the city, but not for his Kasi.
He left with a promise that he will come back to build. His Kasi prayed for him, his mother blessed him, his friends gave him farewell.
But after he found his feet in the city, after he got a job, a room, a car, a new life - he never came back home to build. He never laid a brick. He never fixed the gate. He never invested back. He never poured back into the soil that raised him. He grinds for the city, but not for his Kasi.
Example
- "My cousin is a Vakamorah - 8 years in Pretoria grinding but no brick at home in B."
- "We don't need Vakamorahs, we need builders who come back."
- "He left Kameelrivier B to grind in Jozi but never came back home to build."
CULTURAL NOTE:
Common phenomenon in South African Kasi life. This word was created to name that pain and to remind the youth: Leave to grind, but come back to build
Vammorah
NEW
Vammorah is the hard life. The season before softness. It is the dust on your shoes from walking far with no taxi money, the nights with no sleep because you are hustling, the pain that teaches you. Vammorah is not a curse - it is the training ground. You cannot appreciate LivaMora if you never lived Vammorah. Every real 707 child knows Vammorah first, then LivaMora comes later. Vammorah is struggle money, pain money, but honest money.
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