Backroom

A backroom is a room in a yard that's usually at the back of the main house. It is mostly used for rental purposes.


I'm renting a backroom in Tembisa.



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.



Flavoured air

This is the premium air that people from Pitori think they breathe, while the rest of the world breathes normal air.


Pretorians like to think they breathe flavoured air



Gabhadiya

Is a very strong person, a bosso in other words.


That man is a gabhadiya.



ilolo

ilolo is a Xhosa term for a loner.


Mna ndililolo, andinamntu.

I am a loner, I have no one.



Zkhiphani

Zkhiphani or zikhiphani is a Mzansi slang term for "What's up", "what it do", "what's happening", and so on... You get the picture.


Ola mjita, zkhiphani lapho.



Piss pipe

A term that means a penis or dick.


I'll be back, gotta go drain the piss pipe.



Nguni

Nguni, cluster of related Bantu-speaking ethnic groups living in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
They speak Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele.


We should unite as Nguni people and stop this tribalism.



Kwagura

It is a hybrid-kinyarwada word invented by RCA bwoys to mean the act of being in a great trouble that can even lead to loss of life as well as some body parts.


If he finds you during the same moment, he will widen you. (Arakwagura)



Drata

South African slang term for R100 (1 Hundred Rands).
Some call it Klipa.


I just need 2 drata then I'll be fine.




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