Holy city of Mouride Sufism with the Great Mosque of Touba.
Example
Touba's Grand Magal pilgrimage attracts over 2 million visitors annually.
Baps is a South African slang term for sex.
Illegal drinking place. In South Africa, it refers to unlicensed bars in Kasi and has become a mainstream word.
Example
I last saw him drinking Zamalek at the shebeen yesterday.
Word meaning drink, any type of drink and mostly biased towards alcohol drinks.
Example
uspinza ini? What are you drinking?
The term for a student at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Rhodes is notorious for its heavy-drinking scene. Thus, being a Rhodent is also synonymous with drinking heavily.
Rhodes is notorious for its heavy-drinking scene. Thus, being a Rhodent is also synonymous with drinking heavily.
Example
Rhodents were overdrinking everyone at that party last night.
A stokvel is a savings pool where a group of individuals contribute an agreed-upon monthly amount. The group have full control of how they would like to use that money. Two common methods are to pay out monthly or annually. The group can make monthly pay-outs, or they could keep investing their savings and get a lump sum at the end of the year.
Example
I have joined a stockvel with the members of my community where we get monthly payouts.
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