Some South African Colloquialisms

Howzit my bru? Talk like a South African

Some South African colloquialisms – essential language knowledge for any visitor to this neck of the woods.

Ag man!	Oh man!		Jolling	Having fun
Aikona!	No way!		Just now	Sometime (soon)
Bakkie	Light pick up truck		Lekker	Great
Biltong	Dried meat (jerky)		Miggie	Small flying bug
Boerewors	Spicy sausage		Mozzie	Mosquito
Bokkie	Sweethear / a doe		Muti	Medicine
Braai	Barbecue		My bru	My brother (friend)
Cheery	Girlfriend		My China	My mate
Cozzie	Swimsuit		Now now	very soon
Diff	Stupid		Sarmie	Sandwich
Dorp	Small town		Takkies	Sneakers
Fundi	An expert		Trek	Journey
Howzit?	How are you?		Tsotsi	Thief / hooligan
Izzit?	Really?		Yebo	Yes

In case you’re wondering, South Africans do say “talk like” instead of “speak like”

Lynda

Cape Peninsula Still far Behind in Integration

Samaritan gets Chased Like Dog

When a Coloured man (Kurtley Meyer, 47, from Lavender Hill) jumps over a wall to save a White woman’s life by doing CPR, gets her heart going and then gets roughly told by a White man “Wat maak jy” and chased away like a dog there is something very wrong with that White man’s attitude. He is recorded as later saying “Ek is jammer, maar jy kan nie hierdie dinge doen nie”.

Sies op jou, jou fieslike wit man!

Coloured Man Saves White Woman’s Life

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Alerted by the elderly woman’s daughter’s screaming for help, Kurtley jumped over the wall and administered CPR which he learned from a TV programme. When he began there was no pulse. That woman owes Kurtley her life and is grateful and thankful for his help.

The predominance of Dutch Reformed churches in Lakeside and surrounds and the general mistrust of coloured people is a hangover from a bygone era.

Living in Self-Made Prisons

Yes, there are coloured ‘bergies‘ who sell tik and boom to teenagers. Yes, there are young coloured and black men who mug the elderly (including my own mother 2 years ago – in her own yard) – but white people who are governed by fear, living behind their electric fences, fail to see that they have emulated concentration camp-style incarceration – for themselves.