Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) little fellow, used either of a child or derog. of an adult.

1959		E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 112: Hell, outjies, I see her [...] and I say let’s ride the swing, cherry.
1960		J. Taylor ‘Ballad of the Southern Suburbs’ 🎵 If you won’t take us to the zoo, / Then what the heck else can we do, / But go on out and moera all the outjies next door.
1974		(con. 1950s) A. Brink Looking on Darkness 101: All the people will know me en’ say : Thet’s Joseph Malan, thet outjie.
1987		New Nation 28 May 11: When I was a child, I can remember a white man pointing to me and saying ‘These outjies, I hate them more than poison’.