Pipe

South African
slang commonly used in a Hip-Hop context for Hookah Pipe or “Hubbly-Bubbly”

Hade Broer, can you skyf pipe there?

Umgowo

A Xhosa term used to tell someone that you are going through the most.

Variations: mgowo, gowa, gowisha, gowishing.

I'm so broke, ngumgowo nje wodwa mntase.

Eita

A colloquial term to greet someone, synonymous with "hello",”hi”, “hey”.

Eita my brother, dintshang?

Kotini

Local term for cotton.

Sidl'ukotini kwedini.

Dankie

Dankie is an Afrikaans term for "thank you". It is however used informally in almost all the South African languages for showing gratitude.

Man 1: You left your phone in the bathroom, I left it at the reception.
Man 2: Dankie, chief.

Agnorant

People who are extremely ignorant, yet simultaneously extremely arrogant.

He thinks he knows more than scientists, he is very agnorant.

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.

Sbwl

Sbwl is an acronym, and slang for the Xhosa language, which originated from the South African word “ sabaweli”; the meaning of the word was, “ crave, desire, yearn or to want something”.

On social media; is meant to have been created by “gay Xhosa men “ to hide their desire for a woman's man on social media.

1. Sbwl a good man.

ANCYL

The youth structures of the ANC, founded during the 1940s.

I used to be a member of the ANCYL.

Zekethe

Is a hit song that makes everyone go crazy.

zekethe... zekethe... zekethe