Kasi

A South African slang term for township.


I come form ekasi.

Lezothi

A beautiful person


Bona lezothi

Saint-Louis

Former colonial capital with distinctive French-Creole architecture.


Saint-Louis' Jazz Festival is West Africa's oldest music festival.

Salvation

Salvation is a South African rapper and songwriter. He was introduced to the music industry late 2013. The artist started making wonders in a well known genre, Hip Hop as a solo artist and has then evolved from just rapping to being musical and flowing on beautiful melodies of trap-soul.


Salvation is the future of HipHop music

Iyeza

Iyeza is anything and everything that heals.


Ina iyeza, sela iyeza.

Bliksem

To hit someone to a pulp.


Don't try me, I will bliksem you.

Gqe

Igqe is a derogatory Zulu word for vagina.


Why are you broke when you have igqe?

icatchile idyan

This means that the dyan has caught feelings.


I can't believe icatchile idyan.

Spaza

Not to be confused with Spaza shop... Is the name used to refer to Xhosa rap or Xhosa hip hop. It is not clear how the name went from being a kasi shop to a music genre.


You know guys from cape Town like listening to Spaza music.

umshologu

properly used to mean a “spirit” from
u -> the
m -> child of, person of, thing of
Shulgi -> an ancient Sumerian king who deified him just like Jesus and so people were said to perform wonders “In the name of Shulgi”.


On seeing a ghost: I saw umshologu.
On seeing a magic performance: He’s using umshologu.
A church was in the old days called: The House of umshologu
On someone who loves to go to church: He’s the ash of the house of umshologu. (you can modernize the expression by using “furniture” instead of “ash”)


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