Mozambique's Indian Ocean capital with Portuguese-style architecture.
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Maputo's fish market serves the freshest peri-peri prawns.
This is a South African way of saying Barbecue.
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Tonight, we deserve to have braai and celebrate the great year we've had
To stand and be at alert or wait.
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Pozi for here. Meaning wait for (me) here.
Pozi make dem no loss you. Stand at alert so that you're not pickpocketed
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Kwesta is my favourite South African rapper.
Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.
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she keeps telling me I'm fat and she is always making derogatory remarks.
Vammorah is the hard life. The season before softness. It is the dust on your shoes from walking far with no taxi money, the nights with no sleep because you are hustling, the pain that teaches you. Vammorah is not a curse - it is the training ground. You cannot appreciate LivaMora if you never lived Vammorah. Every real 707 child knows Vammorah first, then LivaMora comes later. Vammorah is struggle money, pain money, but honest money.
The name South Africans gave Queen Elizabeth when she died 😅
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Hitler is reportedly having a nice time with Lizbet in hell.
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We drank way too much yesterday, ndiyafa yi bhabhalaza.
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