Word of the Day [23 Feb 2026]

Kota

A quarter loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with combinations of atchar, polony (Bologna), Russian sausages, slap chips, cheese, eggs, chilli sauce and more. A street food / kasi variant of the more suburban bunny chow.


I'm definitely getting myself a kota the next time I visit Gomora.

Drata

South African slang term for R100 (1 Hundred Rands).
Some call it Klipa.


I just need 2 drata then I'll be fine.

Rae Thoma Rae Fetsa

Rae Thoma Rae Fetsa is the nickname of the Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana player, Relebohile Mofokeng, also known as President yama 2000. The name means "We start it, we finish it" in SeSotho.


Rae Thoma Rae Fetsa, Rae Thoma Rae Fetsa. Wa nyisa boy.


Sapiosexual

A person who is sexually attracted to a person's intellect or mind before physical appearance. It comes from the Latin root "sapien" which means wise.


I am not into beautiful girls, I am sapiosexual.

Bobby

Bobby is a slang term for “big breast”or “big boobs”


as a woman if you don’t have bobby you supposed be a slave.


Seychellois Rupee

Currency of Seychelles (SCR) issued by the Central Bank of Seychelles.


Features unique island wildlife like the coco de mer palm.

Chillax

A South African slang term to calm down or relax.


I will be chillaxing by the beach all day today.


Bafana Bafana

The weakest soccer team in Africa and the rest of the world.


Even Banyana Banyana can beat your beloved Bafana Bafana.

Gombo

The indigenous name for the City of East London meaning the new farming area or new development. The name was given by the precolonial Xhosas to the City following its establishment after the Sixth Frontier War. Today it is mistakenly pronounced Gompo
owing to the Christianization of the Xhosa language by early African converts writers who owing to growing up in mission station could not comprehend Xhosa properly and had a habit of changing the spelling of Xhosa words they did not understand.


Going to East London?
I’m going to Gombo


Benin

A West African country known as the birthplace of voodoo, with historical kingdoms and growing cotton industry.


We studied the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in what is now modern Benin.

Thungisani

What this other gender say when a guy buys them a lousy streetwise 2.


He took me out yesterday, thungisani




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