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[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 29 sept. 🌐 One-time bandiet Carl Niehaus, now parliamentary boss of his former jailers [is] admirably rel;axed as the 40-odd bandiete arrive.
at bandiet, n.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 15 Mar. 🌐 The Kaapse klonkie with a brand new, rent-paying job.
at klonkie, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 25 Apr. 🌐 That great northern suburbs phenomenon, the kugel and the bagel.
at bagel, n.
[SA] Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 7 Nov. 🌐 As they see police vans coming, they shout ‘Here comes the kwela-kwela!’ and run.
at kwela-kwela, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 24 Jan. 🌐 In those days I was still much younger than I am now, but to them I was a ‘toppie’.
at toppie, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 24 Apr. 🌐 One day another bandiet grabbed R40 I got from my relatives.
at bandiet, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 11 Sept. 🌐 An English bobby who weyes only for the gobsmacking price of the new Polo.
at gobsmacked, adj.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 15 May 🌐 Rockey Street [...] is probably South Africa’s most famous jolling street.
at jol, v.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 15 May 🌐Rockefellers and Da Joint are popular among indian and coloured jollers.
at joller, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 24 Apr. 🌐 Rakuba is a career prisoner: he first went to jail in 1970 and since then hadn’t spent more than three months ‘outside’ until his release last year.
at outside, adv.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 15 May 🌐 Revellers suck the ‘peace pipe’ of dagga.
at pipe, n.1
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 24 Apr. 🌐 As a veteran he was known in prison as ‘professor’. [...] ‘As a professor I had an office and my word was law’.
at professor, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 11 Sept. 🌐 In the anticipatory flurry of smiles and skinder, I chat to Mike Ellman.
at skinder, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 15 May 🌐 A meeting place for black middle-class intellectuals and ‘wannabe-black’ whiteys.
at whitey, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 27 Nov. 🌐 I was [...] shocked at discovering the kugel version of the infamous township chop-chop in a reasonably laanie suburb.
at chop-shop (n.) under chop, v.2
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 13 Apr. 🌐 We jazzed out and down to Foundation for a few sessions of hard house.
at jazz around (v.) under jazz, v.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 4 June 🌐 The kugel lady [...] was loading a nice wooden fire surround into her 4x4.
at kugel, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 27 Nov. 🌐 I was [...] shocked at discovering the kugel version of the infamous township chop-chop in a reasonably laanie suburb.
at laanie, adj.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 13 Apr. 🌐 The passing of the Pink Piano Lounge and its fab drag queens and failed pool sharks.
at pool shark (n.) under shark, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 13 Apr. 🌐 The passing of the Pink Piano Lounge and its fab drag queens and failed pool sharks.
at tart, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 9 Dec. 🌐 That’s good as it shows off how built you are.
at built, adj.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 9 Dec. 🌐 popular south oke words are ‘kiff’ or ‘nice’ (pronounced ‘noas’) meaning great.
at kif, adj.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 9 Dec. 🌐 You never know when you need to hide in a bush to klap someone, so these schweet camo shorts are practical.
at klap, v.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 9 Dec. 🌐 Popular south oke words are [...] ‘schweet like a lemon’ [...] delightful.
at sweet as (a) nut (adj.) under sweet, adj.1
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 9 Dec. 🌐 Popular south oke words are [...] ‘titties’ or ’supertit’, meaning awesome.
at tits, adj.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 6 Sept. 🌐 She a gentle soul from Durban [...] he a bulky Boksburg breker with a Jewish father.
at breker, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 20 Dec. 🌐 Tik is the slang name given to the stimulant drug meth.
at tik, n.2
[SA] Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 4 Apr. 🌐 They followed the live shows with a late-night comedy season on kykNet called Blikskottel.
at blikskottel, n.
[SA] Mail & Guardian 21 Apr. 🌐 [Sugars] comes wrapped in bin-bag plastic, tied into small Aids-ribbon-shaped ‘loops’ from which a user can get four or five hits. A loop costs between R10 and R35. [It is] smoked by inhaling the vapour when it is burnt on tin foil.
at loop, n.2
[SA] Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 25 May 🌐 Beckham is no longer England’s main man, [he] has been eclisped as England’s key player.
at main man, n.
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