Unyoko is a Nguni term that means mother. It is mostly used in a rude manner.
Example
Umsunu kanyoko
Your mother's cunt
A Zulu term that refers to a huge belly, mostly seen in tenderpreneurs. Sotho people can spell it as mokhaba.
Example
Stomach in, chest out. Umkhaba must fall.
A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity.
Example
"there is a need for understanding not vengeance, ubuntu not victimization"
A Facebook Celebrity!
A feleb is a person who is famous on Facebook but not really famous in real life.
A feleb is a person who is famous on Facebook but not really famous in real life.
Example
That one is only a feleb, nothing much.
Is someone whom u consider to be ur brother / someone close to u but some people think that a male bestie is someone who wants to ruin ur relationship. That is not true, a male bestie is like a boy bestie.
Example
A male bestie stands by u when u are in tough times
Example
I need to go to the bank to get some zali.
"'Faa' is a borrowed word used for emphasis, originating from Hausa. It is often used at the end of expressions by Yoruba speakers with a Hausa background or origin. This phenomenon is particularly common among Yoruba people in Ilorin and Kogi.
Example
Máa na faa= I will beat you.
Not to be confused with a town (place). To town is the act of having unprotected sex (skoon). It is generally used by Xhosa people.
Example
Ey wena the way you like to town, you will get sick.
In South Africa, a born-free is anyone who was born after 27 April 1994 (Freedom day).
Example
You born-frees don't know anything about struggle.
South Africa's financial capital, born from gold mining and now a multicultural metropolis.
Example
Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum documents the struggle against racial segregation.
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