Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) of hair, frizzy.

1981		C. Hope Separate Development 63: With your complexion, crissy hair and all, next to you even my kaffir girl’s good looking.
1990		Weekly Mail (S. Afr.) 8 Feb. 10: She was the little girl, born of white parents in Piet Retief, who was forcibly removed from her school after the principal notified the police that her skin was turning dark and her hair was becoming ‘crizzy’ [DSAE].