Word of the Day — 02 Nov 2026
The South African former president.
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Times were nice during Jacob Zuma’s time.
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Coloured, formerly Cape Coloured, a person of mixed European (“white”) and African (“black”) or Asian ancestry, as officially defined by the South African government from 1950 to 1991.
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Coloureds are mostly found in Cape Town but can be found all over South Africa.
A very bad way of spelling mntase. It is mostly used by Sotho/Tswana people to mock Xhosa people on social media.
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Yho motase, I couldn't believe what I saw.
Isgaxa or isigaxa means Big news, like WOW, like Yhoo, like I don't believe it.
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Everyday is a new sgaxa, I've run out of haibos.
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Ulibonile igedlela lami elisha?
Did you see my new car?
A Central African country with diverse geography, cultures, and languages, often called 'Africa in miniature'.
Example
Cameroon's national football team is nicknamed the Indomitable Lions.
A large island nation with unique wildlife, vanilla production, and French cultural influences.
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Madagascar is home to lemurs found nowhere else on Earth.
Nongogo is a vulgar Xhosa term that means a whore.
Example
Ndipeyile namhlanje, I should get unongogo.
I got paid today, I should get a whore.
A kasi term that is used to refer to an older man. It is borrowed from Afrikaans and has a direct translation of big man.
Example
Sure grootman, zkhiphani.
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