kagablog

a is for

abandon, abase, accountability, accusation, activism, affirmative action, africa, african, afrikaans, aid, aikona, alexandra, alienation, allegation, ammunition, anarchy, anc, animosity, anxiety, apartheid, apparatchik, arrest, arrogance, arson, assault, asylum;

b is for

babel, baby, back door, backhander, bafana, balaclava, banned, beer, beetroot, belonging, bigotry, biko, black economic empowerment, blanket, bliksem, blockade, bloody, border, boundary, bra, braai, bread, bribe, broken, brother, bury, butcher;

c is for

cabal, cacophony, car guard, censorship, children, church, citizen, cleveland, clothing, cold, coloured, combustive, community, compassion, complacency, conflict, congolese, conscience, constitution, consumerism, cordon, corporation, corpse, corruption, cricket, crowbar, crowd-control, culture;

d is for

dagga, danger, darkness, death, decay, decree, deficit, degradation, demarcation, democracy, denial, deportation, desperation, destruction, detour, diarrhoea, diepsloot, difference, dignity, disappear, discontent, discriminate, disgrace, displace, dogmatic, domestic worker, durbanville;

e is for

early grave, earth, eastern cape, ecocide, economy, education, eina, eish, ek sê, electricity, elder, elite, emergency, emigration, enclave, entitlement, epidemic, ethnicity, eurocentrism, everyday, eviction, evil, exile, expatriate, expectation, exploitation, expulsion, extortion;

f is for

faceless, family, fast buck, fat cat, father, faultline, fear, fester, fight,

finish and klaar, fire, flashpoint, flesh, flight, foe, folktale, food, foreigner, foul, fraud, freedom, frenzy, frozen, fuck-up, fuel, funeral;

g is for

gag, gang, ganja, gash, gate, gatvol, gaunt, gender, genocide, gesuip, getaway, ghetto, ghost, gibe, girlie, glad hand, globalisation, glutton, gold, gossip, government, gravy train, graze, grievance, guard, gugulethu, guilt, guns;

h is for

half-blood, half-jack, hamba, hammer, hangover, harassment, hardship, hatred, haunted, heartbeat, heritage, hhayibo, hillbrow, history, hiv, homeless, homebru, hopeless, hostel, housing, how’s your mind, howzit, human rights, humiliation, hunger;

i is for

identity, ideology, ignorance, illiteracy, immigrant, impotence, impunity, inadequate, incite, independence, indian, indigent, indololwane, induna, ineffective, inequality, infection, inflation, injury, ifp, insecurity, interest rate, interrogation, intimidation, intolerance, isit;

j is for

ja, jacaranda, jack of all trades, jaded, jammer, jammie, jam session, jargon, jazz, jeer, jesus, jeppestown, jimmied, jirre, jislaaik, jive, job, joint, jol, jolt, jostle, jova, jozi, justification, just now;

k is for

kak, kalanga, kangaroo court, kaposi’s sarcoma, kasie, keep to yourself, kettle, khaki, khaya, khayelitsha, kick, kif, kill, kin, klap, kleintjie, klippies, knobkerrie, knowledge, koran, kraal, kwaai, kwaito, kwazulu, kwela;

l is for

land, langa, lank, language, larney, latrine, lawless, leadership, lecher, lekgotla, lekker, lesbian, liberation, lie, life, lightey, lights out, lingo, litter,

load-shedding, loathing, loneliness, looter, lotto, love, lucky strike, luxury;

m is for

machete, madiba, makeshift, makwerekwere, malawian, mampara, mansion, marginalisation, mbeki, mealie meal, media, memory, migrant, millionaire, mine, minibus, minister, mob, money, mother, mourn, mozambican, mpumalanga, mugabe, murder, mute, mzanzi;

n is for

naai, naked, namedrop, nation, nationalism, nca, nê, necklace, need, negative, neglect, neighbour, network, nepotism, neurosyphilis, newtown, ngo, nigerian, nightmare, nihilist, nooit, north west, now-now, numb, number, nutrition, nyanga;

o is for

objectify, observe, occupant, ocean, ochre, odd job, offender, officiate, oil lamp, old-age pensioner, oom, open-mind, opportunity, opportunism, oppression, oprah, opulence, oral history, orphan, otherness, ou, outcast, outrage, overcrowd, overpaid, ownership;

p is for

panga, passport, pavement, pawn, pedi, perimeter, permit, persecution, petrol, phillipi, plunder, pogrom, policeman, political correctness, politician, position, poverty, pozzy, power, preferential, prejudice, president, prison, privilege, procrastination, progressive, promise, propaganda;

q is for

quake, qualification, quality of life, quarantine, quarrel, quarter-final, queasy, queen’s english, queer, question, queue, quick-fire, quick-fix, quickie,

quiet diplomacy, quit, quota;

r is for

racism, raid, rain, ramaphosaville, rape, raze, reconciliation, reconstruction, red cross, refugee, reiger park, renaissance, repression, resentment, resident, resolution, revolution, righteous, rigor mortis, road rage, robbery, robot, rooinek, riot, rubble, rugby, rumour;

s is for

sanctimonious, sanitation, scapegoat, scorpions, screwdriver, sensationalism, shabeen, shacktown, shadow, shakedown, shame, shangaan, shatter, shoot, short left, sister, silence, siyaphapha, skabenga, skyf, somalian, sotho, soutpiel, spear, squatter, stereotype, stigma, stress, strike, survival;

t is for

target, taxi, tension, territory, terror, theft, third force, threat, tik, tinderbox, tokoloshe, toilet, torture, tourist, toyi-toyi, township, transformation, trauma, trembling, tribe, truth, tshwane, tsonga, tsotsi, tsvangirai, tuberculosis, tutu, tyranny;

u is for
ubiquitous, ubuntu, ugly customer, ululate, umshini wam, uncertainty, underbelly, underclass, underpaid, undertaker, unemployment, uniform, union, unity, universal, unjust, uplift, upmarket, urban guerilla, urbanisation, urinate, utility vehicle;

v is for

vaalie, vaginal swab, van der merwe, vasbyt, veld, velskoen, vehemence, venda, vent, verstaan, vibe, victim, village, violence, virgin, virus, visa, visitor, viva, voetsek, voiceless, volatile, volunteer, vote, vrot, vulnerable, vuvuzela;

w is for

waai, wail, waiver, wake, wander, want, war, water, wealth, weary, weep, wena, westernize, white, widow, windgat, wise guy, witchdoctor, witness, womb, women, word, world cup, worry, wreckage, wrong side;

x is for

x chromosome, xenogenesis, xenogenous, xenophobe, xenophobia, xhosa,

x marks the spot, x-ray;

y is for

yale lock, yank, yap, yardstick, yarmulke, yashmak, yawp, y chromosome, yearn, yebo, yell, yellow-belly, yellow fever, yelp, yes-man, you and yours, your humble servant, yourself, youth, yuppie;

z is for

zairean, zambian, zanu, zap, zapu, zeal, zealot, zebra crossing, zeitgeist, zero hour, zero in on, zigzag, zilch, zimbabwe, zimbabwean, zol, zola, zombie, zone, zonked, zoom, zulu, zuma, zweletemba.