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Lalela Zulu choose

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[SA] in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu 54: They caught him and handcuffed him! / They sent him to ‘Blue Sky’.
at blue sky, n.1
[SA] in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu 24: They say he will come back [...] That he will return, her lover, from Goli. [...] It is about a man who is courting a girl whose original lover is away working in ‘Goli’ (Johannesburg).
at Goli, n.
[SA] in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu 81: We arrived at the huge station in ‘Jozi’.
at Joeys, n.
[SA] in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu 69: ‘Kill-me-quick’ and ‘Last-a-week’ we drink everywhere!
at kill-me-quick (n.) under kill, v.
[SA] in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu xi: The English word ‘style’ is used by Zulus to indicate a new craze. [Ibid.] 56: Hurry boy and play a ‘style’ [...] In Matabele [...] they call an imitation of a European tune a ‘style’.
at style, n.
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