Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) bored of, disgusted by, ‘having a bellyful’ of.

[1980		Sun. Times (Jo’burg) 14 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 5: At Herold’s Bay [...] a defiant owner called his holiday home ‘Gatvol’. I wonder which members of an extended family drove him to that [DSAE]].
1992		Financial Mail 13 Mar. 25: These are doubtful voters [...] They are gatvol with De Klerk, the Nats, the communists, [...] Model C schools and suburban hijack murders [...] But the great flaw in the gatvol reasoning is that none of the things that are upsetting people will go away if De Klerk is ousted from power [DSAE].
1997		CyberBraai Lex. at www.matriots.com 🌐 GATVOL: Pronounced ‘ghut-foll’, this a widely-used but somewhat rude word which is difficult to translate into English because it refers to one’s private parts and this is, after all, a family publication. It means ‘fed up’ and all language groups find it useful when an advanced degree of irritation needs to be expressed.
2003		‘SA English’ on Joburg.org.za 🌐 Gatvol (pronounced ghut-foll) – Taken from Afrikaans, this means ‘fed up’, as in ‘Jislaaik china, I’m gatvol of working in this hot sun.’ Translation: ‘Gee my friend, I’m fed up with working in this hot sun.’.
2008		Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 18 Dec. 🌐 How fucking boring if we all have to be the same. But I’m also gatvol of race.
2011		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 17 Feb. 🌐 There is an increasing number of members [...] who are increasingly ‘gatvol’ or fed up with how it does things.