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Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays choose

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[SA] M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 168: That’s a blue lie.
at blue, adj.5
[SA] M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 173: What about jackrollers? [...] I read in the Sowetan that a two-year-old girl was raped and killed. Pigs like that should be castrated.
at jack roller, n.
[SA] M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 171: Uh! She’s such a Kugel. [...] we call all these rich, spoiled white housewives, the Sandton type, koogles.
at kugel, n.
[SA] M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 162: Sy’s net a plaasjapie.
at plaasjapie, n.
[SA] M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 166: Who do you think you are, Princess Diana Sies?!
at sis!, excl.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 57: Blerrie Coloureds. Give them freedom and that’s what they do. Shit all over the place. Shit here. Shit there [...] but they won’t shit in the blerrie toilets.
at blerry, adj.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 60: Tant Sennah always said [...] the evil spirits die when they hear you read from the Bible. You know I don’t believe in all this gemors.
at gemors, n.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 58: Me I’m a hardegat so I just stand there.
at hardegat, n.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 61: Half thet own was walking kaalvoet.
at kaalvoet, adj.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 64: Jou blerrie moer, man! First we were not too white ... now we’re not too black.
at jou moer! (excl.) under moer, n.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 58: It’s like putting Winnie Mandela in a boob tube and stove pipes.
at stove-pipe, n.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 63: You should have seen the rows of poephols waiting to do the test.
at poephol, n.
[SA] I. Mahomed Cheaper Than Roses in Perkins (1998) 57: Blerrie Coloureds. Give them freedom and that’s what they do. Shit all over the place. Shit here. Shit there [...] but they won’t shit in the blerrie toilets.
at shit, v.
[SA] K.A. Perkins Black S. Afr. Women: An Anthol. of Plays 19: Oh and let’s not forget madam Cookie herself. The party’s at her house this year, and I’m dik of hearing her stories.
at dik, adj.1
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