A meal that is generally cooked on Sundays in many households across Mzansi.

It is coined as 7 colours because it comprises a lot of colourful ingredients; a mix of vegetables, starch and meat that make up various colours.
Example

I went home last weekend and my highlight was the 7 colours oledi cooked.

MXhosa 01 May 2022
President Of The United States
Example

The new POTUS is Joe Biden.

Mr Trends 07 November 2020

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.
Example

Grandma had to send the kids back to their mothers because ikati ilele eziko.

MXhosa 18 May 2021
Tsek is a shortened version of Voetsek, an insulting dismissal or exclamation of disgust.
Example

Tsek wena, I don't want to talk to you.

MzansiEdits 28 April 2025

Yawa is a slang for problem or trouble.
Example

"That girl na yawa" meaning That is trouble.

Admin 19 November 2024
Khaltsha is a term that is used to refer to the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town.
Example

Masambe siye eKhaltsha, mfowethu.

Percy 27 April 2025

Financial Dating is just a different "woke" term for prostitution!
Example

No one:



Girls these days: Financial Dating is where it's at.

Chief 06 December 2024
A guy who trended for what was apparently a staged video. He was asked for his number by a woman in a car and he kept saying "082". Twitter gave him the name Mr 082.
Example

Did you see the Mr 082 video?

Chief 05 April 2021

Waya waya is a widely used term in South Africa that means "all the time".
Example

He's always telling lies waya waya.

Skhokho 03 May 2022
In South African restaurants, Mondays are known as Mogodu Mondays, where they serve Mogodu, usually on special.
Example

Let’s go to Mogodu Monday next week.

Mamba 17 June 2025


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