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012

The telephone code for Pitori. People from Pretoria usually use the code to identify themselves.

I will represent 012 till I die!

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Financially deceased

When you are so broke, you literally have nothing left under your name.

1. I've been living on pap and atchaar because I'm financially deceased.

2. I can't pay you this week, I am financially deceased.

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uTaka

Xhosa term for sleeping over at a boyfriend/girlfriend's place.

Umntu wakhe uthe makatake iweekend yonke.

Her partner asked her to sleep over for the whole weekend.

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Mpimpi

Impimpi is a South African term for a snitch.

Impimpi used to be burnt during the apartheid days.

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Dagga

Dagga is another term for marijuanna or weed.

No one:
Parents: You are failing because of the dagga you are smoking.

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Durban poison

A very strong strain of dagga or weed grown in Durban.

This is not your normal shit, this is Durban poison.

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Batlao Hurda

A social media term that means they will hurt you.

You think he loves you... Batlao hurda mntase.

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Ukufemba

Ukufemba is a spiritual healing /energy healing where an inyanga removes bad spirits in one's body or foreign objects in the yard or car. It's an African exorcism (ukukhipha imimoya emibi).

I need to try ukufemba.

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Ayoba

Ayoba is a South African slang, which means something “cool”, “okay”, or “all right”. It was popular before the social media age but its use has declined.

Girl 1: We should go to the mall tomorrow.
Girl 2: Ayoba

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Isidubada

Isidubada is an informal Xhosa dialect where you add a “d” after every sound. For example “Molweni” would be “modolwedenidi”.

Zikhona Sodlaka spoke isidubada in an episode of Gqeberha the Empire.

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