Show me your number is a popular soccer/football skill in South Africa, where the player pretends to shoot the ball and the defender ducks, hence showing his/her number to the attacker.
Example
They hit him with a “show me your number” and the crowd went crazy.
Durban is a beautiful coastal city in the eastern parts of KZN province, South Africa.
Example
I love the weather in Durban, man.
Nguni, cluster of related Bantu-speaking ethnic groups living in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
They speak Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele.
They speak Xhosa, Zulu, Swati and Ndebele.
Example
We should unite as Nguni people and stop this tribalism.
Yoruba
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Qlyv is a shortened version of "Ndiyaqala uyiva", a Xhosa term that means "it is my first time hearing about it".
Example
Girl 1: I hear you are dating Thabo.
Girl 2: Qlyv
A term used in South Africa to refer to money. Madiba is Nelson Mandela's clan name and his face is on the South African bank notes, hence the term.
Example
I can’t come if there’s no Madibas.
If you say that something will happen with immediate effect or with effect from a particular time, you mean that it will begin to apply or be valid immediately or from the stated time.
Example
No one:
Cyril Ramaphosa: The sale of alcohol is suspended with immediate effect!
Nigeria's purpose-built capital with striking modern architecture.
Example
Abuja's Aso Rock is the symbolic center of Nigerian politics.
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