TagSouth Africa

stunt pomping

stunt pomping  n.— «Wyngaard said teenagers had been filming themselves while engaged in sexual activities for at least two years, but the practice had only recently been exposed.…He said they had spent the first week of the month...

black diamond

black diamond  n.— «The competition has got tougher, but with this emerging market—the “black diamonds” as they’re called in the trade—people are buying homes, moving into homes, and upgrading. I think that market is in its infancy—it’s...

happy hello

happy hello  n.— «A new phrase is doing the rounds in the recruitment industry—the happy hello. The phrase has been coined for the joining bonuses that companies are offering to coax the best employees into their fold. Such incentives are...

festino

festino  n.— «It’s that time of year again when lovers of the arts, fondly known as festinoes, make their annual pilgrimage to the Grahamstown Arts Festival in the Eastern Cape.» —“Witsies will also have a role to play at the...

BSO

BSO  n.— «But you see the neat part about it was that we usually only define success in terms of that and they use a lovely term called BSO’s, bright shiny objects, and most of us think that success is the accumulation of bright shiny...

hanko

hanko  n.— «They knew that the container had been shipped from South Africa, but they didn’t know precisely where the ivory—532 tusks and more than 42,000 small cylinders called hankos—came from.» —“La Isabela’s Final...