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Niger

A landlocked West African country with Sahara desert, uranium deposits, and rapid population growth.

Niger faces challenges from desertification and food insecurity.

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UCT

University of Cape Town. People who go there and Wits will make sure that it comes up in the conversation that they go there.

No one:
UCT student: So back in UCT, blah blah blah.

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Ngwije

A fat woman who looks like an idiot.
She doesn't think she's full of diabetes.

The fattest woman is Ngwije.
Even God himself can't reduce her weight.

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Izinyanya

Izinyanya is a Xhosa term for ancestors.

Ndiyabulela kuni zinyanya.

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Ayobaness

Another term for ayoba, a catch phrase that was popular in the Blackberry and YoTv days.

That's so ayoba.
Ayobaness.

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Gugulethu

Gugulethu is a township in Western Cape, South Africa and is around 20km from Cape Town. Its name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride / our hope.

When i visit Cape Town, I make sure I go to Gugulethu.

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Robot

How South Africans say “traffic lights” because “traffic lights” is too long and doesn’t sound futuristic enough.

No one:

Passenger in a taxi: After robot, driver.

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Maga/Mugu

A term used to describe someone regarded as a fool or someone who is very gullible or being conned

My maga promise me hundred thousand Naira

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CPUT

Cape Peninsula University of Technology also known as "Ingenile" it is high school that is based i Cape Town that accommodates amanxila, people who like alcohol and drunkards.

CPUT learners 🗣: Ingenile "R1500"
After 3 days: Bank balance 0.00

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SBWL

Sbwl is a Xhosa shorthand for “sabaweli”. Sabaweli, which in turn is a shorthand of “andisabaweli, andisayibaweli, etc.”, is built from the root word “ukubawela” which means to crave, want, desire, wish for, fancy, yearn, etc.

1. Umntu wakho xa ebona mna, uthi sbwl. >> When your person sees me, s/he says sbwl.

2. Sbwl beer today.

3. Sbwl the coronavirus to just disappear. 

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