Financially deceased

When you are so broke, you literally have nothing left under your name.

1. I've been living on pap and atchaar because I'm financially deceased.

Ninganya

This is a swear word you use when people make fun of your disability, accident, family and kids... and people ask you to apologise for asking a simple question.

I will not apologize for speaking the truth. Ningaya!!!

Abeg

A pidgin term for "please" or "I beg".

Abeg! No waste my time!

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.

Grootman

A kasi term that is used to refer to an older man. It is borrowed from Afrikaans and has a direct translation of big man.

Sure grootman, zkhiphani.

Natubaaze

Natubaaze means let's go in Oshiwambo slang

Peter Natubaaze ko KONKA

Ntshiza

intshiza is a Xhosa slang term for a gun. 

I had to give them my phone, one of them ebephethe intshiza. 

Bathong

Word used to express disbelief, surprise, dissatisfaction

Bathong...he really ate all those chilli's

Isichitho

isichitho is curse or spell that is made by people using a muthi to make a divisions in a relationship, sometimes families, by making a victim unattractive and annoying.

They tried to use isichitho to make my boyfriend dump me.

Tsotsi Taal

The term directly translate to "Criminal language". This is a vernacular derived from a variety of mixed languages, mainly spoken in the townships all over South Africa.

Each Kasi has its own tsotsi taal or its own way of speaking, meaning tsotsi taal from Soweto might differ from that of Pitori.

Teacher: You cannot speak that Tsotsi Taal in my class. Here we speak proper English.

BBL

BBL is short for Brazilian Butt Lift. This is what these influencers do to make their nyash big.

“Skatlo nyela wena ka BBL that looks like rugby player’s shoulders” - Seemah