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[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: A stranger to the tsotsi’s dangerous world could save his throat if he has some knowedge of basic words and phrases: Atshitshi – marijuana.
at atshitshi, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 124: Don’t ask for a skaal of Bantu beer .
at Bantu beer, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 44: He couldn’t even light a fuse there. And no booze on the premises, man.
at fuse, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: Die Gattes – the police.
at gata, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: Die gattes - the police.
at gattes, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 124: Those Small Time Joints where they add water to the beer [...] where the so-called hash girls promise sex and plunder your wallet withour delivering.
at hash girl, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: A stranger to the tsotsi’s dangerous world could save his throat if he has some knowedge of basic words and phrases: Kuzak – cash money.
at kuzak, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: A stranger to the tsotsi’s dangerous world could save his throat if he has some knowedge of basic words and phrases: Magageba – money.
at magageba, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 127: A stranger to the tsotsi’s dangerous world could .. save his throat if he has some knowledge of basic words and phrases ... Phata-phata – sex.
at pata-pata, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 124 : Say, ‘Auntie, what about a popla?’ That means you would like a beer. Or, ‘A dop of moonshine, sister!’ [...] Or even, ‘I just want to pusa’. Meaning you want to fly high on something and you are not particular.
at phuza, v.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 127: ‘Auntie Thandi,’ he grinned, ‘what about a popla?’ ‘This is a house [...] not a beer hall.’.
at popla, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 121: The queens prefer to pay their house-rent six months in advance. Who needs a rent collector banging on the door when there are thirsty clients to be served?
at queen, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: A stranger to the tsotsi’s dangerous world could save his throat if he has some knowedge of basic words and phrases: Sy line met die rawurawu – she goes out with thugs.
at rawurawu, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 184: He says my mother’s parents were real Russians. That is what we call the South Sotho people, because of the way they wear their blanket.
at Russian, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 130: 132: The shebeen queen, if it is a first offence, faces the court’s ultimatum: two hundred rands or two hundred days.
at shebeen queen (n.) under shebeen, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 130: Forty per cent of national beer consumption is sold through shebeens […].
at shebeen, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: A sheila is a tsotsi’s girlfriend in more ways than one. If he needs money, she will work the streets for him. In the Chicago of the speak-easy days they would have called her a gangster’s moll.
at sheila, n.1
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 153: A stranger to the tsotsi’s dangerous world could save his throat if he has some knowledge of basic words and phrases: Skarapafet – a prostitute.
at skarapafet, n.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 124: Those Small Time Joints where they add water to the beer [...] where the so-called hash girls promise sex and plunder your wallet without delivering.
at small-time joint (n.) under small-time, adj.
[SA] P.C. Venter Soweto 81: Clinging to the side of a fast train is dangerous — but not dangerous enough for some of the ‘staff riders’. There are those who prefer to travel on the roof of a train ... The mortality rate of so-called staff riders is high.
at staffrider, n.
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