Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) the end, the finish.

1966		S. Clouts ‘Hotknife’ in One Life 54: She was in de Crab sir. It was tiekets.
1974		A. Brink Looking on Darkness 197: It’s tickets with us. Dey turning Distric’ Six into a smart place now, fo’ de Gov’ment’s White boys. We Coloureds getta kick inne arse en’ it’s out we go.
1983		J.C. De Ridder Sad Laughter Memories 122: We’ll find the gun, Scotch, and then it’s tickets for you and Khumalo.
1990		R. Malan My Traitor’s Heart (1991) 363: If that man talks to the police [...] it’s tickets for him.
2006		S. Parks August Gone, Massacra Nella Testa 🌐 Then one day you find yourself sitting in a closed garage with a garden hose hooked up to the exhaust and it’s tickets.