Feranja

Feranja is an insult used towards girls to say they are ratchet or hoes .


Uyi feranja uZenkosi



Pipe

South African
slang commonly used in a Hip-Hop context for Hookah Pipe or “Hubbly-Bubbly”


Hade Broer, can you skyf pipe there?



Park the bus

In soccer, to park the bus means to play very defensively, to get a lot of players behind the ball. Imagine a bus parked in front of the goal. It is almost impossible to score.


Park the bus, Man United. Playing football the Mourinho way



Kisumu

Port city on Lake Victoria known for fishing and vibrant lakeside culture.


Kisumu's Dunga Beach offers fresh tilapia straight from the lake.



Bari

Bari is a name given to God in Ogoni land


Barikui which means God is big



Hhayi bo (haibo)

It is not Xhosa but Zulu phrase meaning to disapprove an act. It goes together with phrases like, kahle no, musa bo, woza bo, mana no, etc


Hhayi bo wnzani?



Cupcake

The nickname for the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa.


Cupcake is opening the country again.



Gumba

cash, stash , dough, (relation to money in general.)

Serendipitously the word is a title of the song that shook the whole mzansi, nation as a whole, it was in every corner one would turn.


ntwana ako sike gumba dar, lend me some cash nyana.



Xelegu

Ixelegu is a Xhosa word for a dirty person or a person who just cant be tidy.


I can’t deal with ixelegu.



Show me your number

Show me your number is a popular soccer/football skill in South Africa, where the player pretends to shoot the ball and the defender ducks, hence showing his/her number to the attacker.


They hit him with a “show me your number” and the crowd went crazy.




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