South Africa Slang Dictionary
South African slang is a rich, multilingual mix that borrows freely from the country's eleven official languages - isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho and more - plus street languages like tsotsitaal and Sepitori. It's the language of the townships, the taxi rank, kwaito and amapiano, and everyday Mzansi life from Joburg to Cape Town to Durban. Words like eish, howzit, lekker, sharp sharp and yebo are woven into how South Africans speak every day. Explore the community-built dictionary of South African slang below - and add the words you know.
There will be another family meeting, I hope he doesn't ban alcohol again.
Can also be spelt as Kwirikwiri or kwarakwara.
Stop calling foreign people kwerekwere!
No one:
Wits student: Wits is better than UCT but this is a conversation y'all are not ready for.
Rhodes is notorious for its heavy-drinking scene. Thus, being a Rhodent is also synonymous with drinking heavily.
Rhodents were overdrinking everyone at that party last night.
Did you see what TUT students were doing to the cops during the protest?
I got rejected at Tuks so I will apply at TUT.