Example
You no want this kpekus?
Mjolo basically means dating. It's derived from ukujola which means to date. Therefore mjolo is the act of dating (ukujola).
Other people may spell it as mojolo
Other people may spell it as mojolo
Example
Mjolo will nyisa you.
A South African newspaper that publishes bullshit stories that other newspapers don't want to publish.
Example
I can tell from the bullshit you are saying that you get your news from Daily Sun.
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.
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
Soshanguve is a township situated about 30 km north of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, just east of Mabopane. The name Soshanguve is an acronym for Sotho, Shangaan, Nguni and Venda, thus showing the multi-ethnic composition of the population.
Example
If you can make it in Soshanguve, you can make it anywhere.
How South Africans say “traffic lights” because “traffic lights” is too long and doesn’t sound futuristic enough.
Example
No one:
Passenger in a taxi: After robot, driver.
Vammorah is the hard life. The season before softness. It is the dust on your shoes from walking far with no taxi money, the nights with no sleep because you are hustling, the pain that teaches you. Vammorah is not a curse - it is the training ground. You cannot appreciate LivaMora if you never lived Vammorah. Every real 707 child knows Vammorah first, then LivaMora comes later. Vammorah is struggle money, pain money, but honest money.
A term that refers to the act of urinating or using the toilet.
Example
This beer is making me 6-9 every 15 minutes.
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