Street Champion

A street winner


Flex is The Street Champion



Namibia

A Southern African country with desert landscapes, German colonial heritage, and diamond mining.


Namibia's Namib Desert is considered the world's oldest desert.



blikkie

A tin can.


Pass us the blikkie, bru.



Ku Bird

Ku bird is a term that means "it's bad". Like when the situation gets really really bad. People use "bird" because it sounds the same as "bad".


I only have R3.50 in my bank account. Ku bird!



Kraal

An enclosure for livestock, or a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.


Make sure the kraal is clean before the elders come back.



Qlyv

Qlyv is a shortened version of "Ndiyaqala uyiva", a Xhosa term that means "it is my first time hearing about it".


Girl 1: I hear you are dating Thabo.
Girl 2: Qlyv



Johannesburg

South Africa's financial capital, born from gold mining and now a multicultural metropolis.


Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum documents the struggle against racial segregation.



Enkwarini

A kasi term for a club or a party or a place where a party takes place


Asambe siye enkwarini



Kganthe why?

It's a combination of two words, Sepedi and English, by Mogau Samson Leagathoko Malepe asking someone to rephrase their statement, or tell, "I don't vibe with you" or "I don't follow".


"Bra, I've been looking for you all-over, where did you dissappear to?"
MSL Malepe: "Kganthe why?(with an annoyed lookalike face)"



Japa

Japa is a slang term derived from the Yoruba language. Japa simply means ‘to run swiftly’ out of a dangerous situation.

To 'Japa' means to abort, run, avoid, terminate, retreat or remove yourself from a situation, if used in a sentence.


I wan japa go South Africa next year.




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