15 South African Slang Words You (Might) Want to Use!
As with most other countries, South Africa has its own slang. South African slang has some of the coolest, weirdest and down right confusing slang words of any language I've ever seen!
Many South African slang words have their origins in English, others have their origins in Afrikaans, others in Zulu, others in Xhosa, whilst a few have their origins in many other languages.
Before you go around using these South African slang words, I feel the need to warn you. If you're white, or have any near European heritage (two generations), you may be told by locals not to use it.
For the most part, this is due to racial tensions between the white South Africans and black South Africans. A very minute number of black South Africans will get confrontational if a white person uses the...