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Utsiki

In Xhosa culture, Utsiki is the ritual where the bride to be (umakoti) has to eat a goat meat and drinks the sour milk of that particular family in which she is married to. It's basically the ceremony to welcome her to the family.

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Xhosa girls: sbwl utsiki.

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Family Bars

Family bars are what the skrr skrr generation calls clan names (izithakazelo).

Man, I wish I knew how to recite my Family Bars.

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Maputo

Mozambique's Indian Ocean capital with Portuguese-style architecture.

Maputo's fish market serves the freshest peri-peri prawns.

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Ganja

Ganja is a widely used term to refer to weed or marijuana.

I'm gonna go home and smoke some ganja.

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Umuntu wesifazane

A snake in human form,could also be define as devil herself.

Umuntu wesifaza utsandza imali.

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Skopari

A skopari is a slang term for a loan shark. It is mostly used in the Gqeberha region.

As soon as he gets paid, his money goes to iskopari.

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Mauritania

A Northwest African country with Saharan landscapes, Arab-Berber culture, and iron ore resources.

Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital, is one of the world's newest major cities, founded in 1958.

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Makarapa

A plastic miner’s helmet cut, moulded and painted to make headgear worn by fans at football matches.

I used to wear makarapa when I went to watch the game.

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012

The telephone code for Pitori. People from Pretoria usually use the code to identify themselves.

I will represent 012 till I die!

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Underground gang

A skrr skrr way of referring to the ancestors.

You fam, the underground gang won't be happy about that.

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