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Also refers to the Blue Train, a luxury train that travels from Johannesburg to Cape Town via the Trans Karoo rail-line aka "Transkaroo". boef – lit. "law-breaker". Refers to any person who has broken a law and got away with it. Derived from the Afrikaans word of the same spelling for "to cuff" (i.e. to arrest, or get arrested).
Beaulah Bar in De Waterkant, Cape Town, takes its name from the Gayle word for "beautiful". [2]Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed.
A similar, more recent term used in Cape Town is aweh. [37] Also means intelligent (that laaitie is sharp). shebeen (Also used in Ireland and Scotland) an illegal drinking establishment, nowadays meaning any legal, informal bar, especially in townships. [38] shongololo, songololo Millipede (from Zulu and Xhosa, ukushonga, to roll up). [39] skyfie
A Coloured man from Cape Town speaking Afrikaans. They are generally bilingual, speaking Afrikaans and English, though some speak only one of these. Some Cape Coloureds may code switch, [5] speaking a patois of Afrikaans and English called Afrikaaps, also known as Cape Slang (Capy) or Kombuis Afrikaans, meaning Kitchen Afrikaans
A shantytown in Cape Flats, Cape Town. Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements. [1] The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.
Cape Flats English (abbreviated CFE) or Coloured English is the variety of South African English spoken mostly in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. [1] Its speakers most often refer to it as "broken English", which probably reflects a perception that it is simply inadequately-learned English, but, according to Karen Malan, it is a distinct, legitimate dialect of English.
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms.
Shebeen in Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town A shebeen ( Irish : síbín , "home-made whiskey") was originally an illicit bar or club where accessible alcoholic beverages were sold without a license. The term has spread far from its origins in Ireland , to Canada , the United States , the United Kingdom , Zimbabwe , the English-speaking Caribbean , [ 1 ...