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South African People’s Plays choose

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[SA] M. Shezi Shanti in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 74: After liquor again? Search this house. This must be a shebeen. I don’t remember seeing a Bantu visiting a Coolie.
at coolie, n.1
[SA] M. Shezi Shanti in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 74: After liquor again? Search this house. This must be a shebeen. I don’t remember seeing a Bantu visiting a Coolie.
at shebeen, n.
[UK] G. Kente Too Late in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 94: Madinto, I’ll show you a nutting.
at nut, v.1
[UK] G. Kente Too Late in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 93: Of course, you are sick upstairs. It’s not the head but what’s in it.
at upstairs, adv.
[UK] G. Kente Too Late in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 117: (Offside is making a tobacco zol) offside: A smoke, Sadu?
at zol, n.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 156: Like a hers of blerry camels, man.
at blerry, adj.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 166: Bliksem! What do you think I came here for?
at bliksem!, excl.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 155: One more hour of guided tour in Jailbird Land / where taking notes and photographs and tapes is banned.
at gaolbird, n.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 158: Vusi, my laaitie, if you knew what it was like out there.
at lightie, n.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 143: Right on, brother Vusi.
at right on!, excl.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 145: I’ve got the outside prison, prison outside blues / take a good squiz, there just ain’t nothing to choose / between the inside prison, prison outside blues.
at squiz, n.
[SA] R.M. Kavanagh Survival in Kavanagh S. Afr. People’s Plays (1981) 165: Don’t call me a drunkard, my skat, sweetypie.
at sweetie-pie (n.) under sweetie, n.
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