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Staffrider choose

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[SA] in Staffrider May–June n.p.: Can we have two kachies ... ? Make it three ... I wanna get lekker blou tonight.
at blou, adj.
[SA] Staffrider 1:1 Editorial n.p.: A staffrider is, let’s face it, a skelm of sorts [...] He is part of the present phase of our common history, riding ’staff’ on the fast and dangerous trains [DSAE].
at ride staff (v.) under ride, v.
[SA] in Staffrider 2:3 9: ‘If we do not hate each other why don’t we jola? People who love each other ...’ and then she was in his arms [DSAE].
at jol, v.
[SA] Staffrider 2:3 24: A police sergeant at a roadblock [...] found four kaartjies of zol in my bag, and arrested me [DSAE].
at kaartjie, n.
[SA] Staffrider (SA) 5-6 30: We aren't deterred by gun-wielding cops — for we hold all the Aces! [...] If God be for us who can be against us?
at hold aces (v.) under ace, n.
[SA] Staffrider 5:2 9: There were [...] Mapansula, Ma-Amerikane and what have you [...] These people are discerned from one another by their way of dressing [DSAE].
at pantsula, n.
[SA] Staffrider IX:22 16: Now all that remains of ‘Casbah’ or ‘Kofifi’, other slang names for Sophiatown, is our home — this cheap white suburb with the name that means ‘triumph’ [DSAE].
at Kofifi, n.
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