SOUTH AFRICA
ADJECTIVES
► AFRIKANDER relating to Afrikaans-speaking people → 1822
► AFRIKANER relating to Afrikaans-speaking people → 1930
► CAPIAN belonging to the Cape of Good Hope → 1731 obs.
NOUNS
► AFRICANDERISMS Dutch words and idioms in use in South African English → 1913 S. Afr. (Bk.)
► AFRIKANERDOM the Afrikaner people or nation; Afrikaner culture or ideals → 1900
► AFRIKANERISM the policy, ideals, or aspirations of Afrikaners → 1897
► AFRIKANERIZATION a bringing under the influence or rule of Afrikaners → 1938
► CHICKEN RUN the flight of White people from South Africa, fearing for their future in a non-apartheid country → 1970s S. Afr, sl.
► DARK CITY the township of Alexandra, near Johannesburg → 1950s S. Afr. sl.
► FRIENDLY CITY Port Elizabeth, South Africa → 1951 S. Afr.
► KAFFIRLAND the Cape provinces; latterly, South Africa → M19 sl.
► MZANSI South Africa; South African people collectively → 1999 S. Afr. colloq.
► SNOCK-TOWN Cape Town → L19 S. Afr.
► YARPIELAND South Africa → 1980s Aust. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► AFRICANDER a White native of South Africa, esp. one of Dutch descent → 1822
► AFRIKANDER 1. a Dutch-speaking or Afrikaans-speaking White inhabitant of South Africa → 1822
2. a person born in South Africa of European descent; a White inhabitant of South Africa → 1834 obs.
► AFRIKANER a Dutch-speaking or Afrikaans-speaking White inhabitant of South Africa, usually of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent → 1820
► BAAS in Sth. Africa: a master, an employer of labour; often used as a form of address → 1785
► BACKVELDER a dweller in the backveld (in S. Afr., the primitive or unprogressive rural districts lying away from the towns) → 1911
► BANANA BOY a resident or native of Natal → 1954 S, Afr. sl.
► BANANA GIRL a resident or native of Natal → 1954 S, Afr. sl.
► BANANALANDER an inhabitant of Natal → 1968 S. Afr. sl.
► BASTAARD ► BASTARD a person of mixed race in South Africa → 1790 S. Afr.
► BASTER in Sth. Africa & Namibia (formerly South West Africa): a person of mixed descent → 1790
► BERGIE a vagrant living on the slopes of Table Mountain, Cape Town → 1952 S. Afr.
► BLACK DIAMOND an affluent, salaried Black person → 2007 S. Afr. sl.
► BLACK JACK during apartheid: a member of a police force composed of Black officers and operating in the townships → 1966 S. Afr. sl., derogatory
► DUCK TAIL an unruly South African youth → 1959 S. African sl.
► GAMMAT a Cape Malay, a Coloured person → 1950s S. Afr. sl.
► GATTES an Afrikaaner → 2006 S. Afr. Jewish usage, derogatory
► HOTNOT a coloured person → 1939 S. Afr., derogatory & offensive
► IKEY a student of the University of Cape Town, esp. a member of one of the University’s sports teams → 1921 S. Afr. sl.
► JAAPIE a term of contempt for an Afrikaner → 1949 S. Afr. sl.
► KAFFIR a member of a South African race of Blacks belonging to the great Bantu family, and living on the northeast of Cape Colony, in Caffraria or Caffre-land → 1801
► MODEL D a Black student who attends, or attended, a government school in a township → 2005 S. Afr. sl.
► MOOROOTZE in Southern Africa (esp. among Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, and Tswana speakers): a teacher, missionary, or minister of religion → 1866 S. Afr.
► MORTIE a student at the University of Stellenbosch → 1972 S. Afr. sl.
► MORUTI in Southern Africa (esp. among Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, and Tswana speakers): a teacher, missionary, or minister of religion → 1866 S. Afr.
► MOSOTHO a member of the Southern Sotho people of southern Africa; an inhabitant of Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) → a1838
► MOTH a member of M.O.T.H. (Memorable Order of Tin Hats), a South African ex-servicemen’s organization founded in Durban, Natal, in 1927 by Charles Evenden → 1979
► UNCLE NED a Black South African → 1900s Aust. sl.
► UPPIE a student of the University of Port Elizabeth → 1972 S. Afr. sl.
► VELDMAN one skilled in living or hunting on the veldt (in South Africa, the unenclosed country or open pasture-land) → 1899
► VELDTSMAN one skilled in living or hunting on the veldt (in South Africa, the unenclosed country or open pasture-land) → 1899
► YARPIE a South African; may be jocular, contemptuous, or affectionate → 1949 S. Afr. sl.
► ZAMA ZAMA a person who works illegally in abandoned mine-shafts in order to retrieve metals, minerals, etc. → 2006 S. Afr. colloq.
► ZARP a member of the Boer police force in the pre-1902 South African Republic → 1895
VERBS
► AFRIKANERIZE to bring under the influence or rule of Afrikaners → 1945
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