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...good Passop: take care Stad: city Stadig: a traffic sign meaning "slow" Totsiens: see you later Voetsak: go away, beat it Babalas: hangover Zulu Bafana Bafana: the Boys, or the national soccer team Indaba: a meeting, debate, issue Muti: medicine Sawubona: good day or hello Used in several languages Hamba kahle: go gently, go well Kunjani: How goes it? Nyama: meat Tsotsi: a layabout, criminal, no-good

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say What? | 4/11/2004 | See Source »

...Hamba," shouted one and "Hamba," cried another-which being translated from the Russsian means "Shame." A foreign mob pressed in from the East one rainy day last week, tossed cattlewise upon 97th St., Manhattan, sprawled upon the upper calm of Fifth Avenue by the Park. "Hamba. Hamba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Nicholas | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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