Mswapheni
A person, usually a blesser or sugar mama who just swipes his/her card without any hesitation.
We are out of beer... mswapheni
We are out of meat... mswapheni
Yellow Bone
A term that is used to refer to light skinned people (mostly girls).
If you are a guy and someone calls you a yellow bone, then something is wrong my guy 😂
We were just chilling and this yellow bone came in and everyone was looking at her. It was like a dream 😍
Family meeting
Whenever President Cyril Ramaphosa sets up a time to address the country about Covid.
There will be another family meeting, I hope he doesn't ban alcohol again.
Ikati ilele eziko
This is a Xhosa figure of speech that describes hunger or poverty. It directly translate to "a cat is sleeping in the fire (cooking) place (or stove if you may say)". So the cat is sleeping where people are supposed to be cooking because there's no fire and no food to cook.
Grandma had to send the kids back to their mothers because ikati ilele eziko.