A pidgin term for "please" or "I beg".
Example

Abeg! No waste my time!

Adeola • 20 July 2020
Currency of Ghana (GHS) issued by the Bank of Ghana. 1 Cedi = 100 pesewas.
Example

The current cedi was introduced in 2007 with a revaluation of 10,000:1.

Travel Admin • 21 July 2025

In SePitori, Nkao Tempela means I can flex on you.

See: Tempela
Example

I’m beyond insane, nna Nkao Tempela (Yeah).

DRex • 21 November 2021
The term refers to a woman or women who are identified as being available for the pleasure and entertainment of men.
Example

John vul'igate, nasi istocko.

John open the gate, we have the stocko.

Mr Trends • 16 October 2020

Ukudla is the formal Zulu term for food.
Example

Ngifuna ukudla kwami.

I want my food.

LinguistZA • 07 September 2022
Nkandla is a town in the uThungulu district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the district where former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma is from.
Example

I want to visit Nkandla this December.

DRex • 08 November 2022

PSL

PSL is the acronym for Premier Soccer League, which is the South African top flight soccer/football league.
Example

We can't let Mamelodi Sundowns win the PSL title again 🤦🏾‍♂️

Percy • 27 April 2025
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.
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

Anti Devil • 04 October 2026

Imedi is a term, mostly used in Cape Town to refer to a girl or girlfriend.
Example

Ndiyayithanda imedi yam bro.

I love my girlfriend bro

MXhosa • 24 January 2022
A situation where you don't have money and you have no means of getting it.
Example

I'm so Meneer Magongwa these days.

Mbali • 05 April 2021


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