Capetonian

Welcome home, Capetonians!
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zarm

toasted sandwich

It's derived from the S. Afr. slang word sarmie, which is short for sandwich.

Sarmie can refer to normal or toasted sandwiches, but zarm specifically means toasted ones.
Bru, could you get me a cheese zarm?
by George McBob May 12, 2009
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horse

a device for turning money into shit and injuries.
Every Saturday afternoon, the hospital has at least 5 or 6 horse injury cases.

Oats + bran + hay + horse = very expensive shit.
by George McBob May 17, 2009
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blue light brigade

(S. Afr.) VIP protection motorcade.

Blue light brigades consist of between five and twenty black SUVs with tinted windows and flashing blue lights, depending on the overinflation of the ego of the obnoxious fatcat contained therein.

Blue light brigades have been known to force honest taxpaying motorists off the road or even shoot at them. They don't stop a traffic lights, drive in emergency lanes and break every possible traffic law.

In South Africa, the proper road etiquette when encountering one is to drive into their lane and block them for as long as possible without endangering your own vehicle, hoot repeatedly and wind down your window to give them the finger. You should also politely request all your passengers to give them the finger too.
I almost got rammed by a blue light brigade the other day. There were 20 vehicles in it, so it must have been Jacob Zuma or someone. I blocked him for 15 seconds and gave him the finger though.
by George McBob May 07, 2009
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DVD season

It's a well known fact that all the good movies go into the cinemas at the same time. The periods between these are DVD seasons, when instead of going to the movies you just rent the movies from the last good period and watch them at home with a pizza.
Damn, there's nothing on but chick flicks. All the sci fi movies are off the circuit. It must be another DVD season.
by George McBob May 17, 2009
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Eskom

The worst electricity company in the entire world. Situated in South Africa. The only company in the world whose adverts request consumers to actually use LESS of their product.

They have just increased their tariffs by 34%! They cause continuous blackouts, and their biggest stroke of genius yet has been the "load shedding" system in which they switched off the power to some areas on purpose (and never kept to their own load shedding schedule anyway) and eventually led to one substation in Kempton Park blowing up because it was never designed to be switched on and off repeatedly.

They have no clue as to how their own infrastructure works, because they have fired all of their experienced white engineers to replace them with inexperienced affirmative action employees who would take years to learn how to do the job properly even if Eskom management could be bothered to train them.

Thanks to their bungling, the few power stations that do actually work properly can't be run at full capacity because the national grid is in such a shocking state of disrepair. Koeberg nuclear power station is never running more than tree of it's four reactors at any one time and almost all of their profit goes into Mercs, BMWs and 400% bonuses for their managers rather than new infrastructure.
A Metallica concert in Cape Town started an hour late because of a blackout. The crowd started chanting "Eskom! Eskom! Eskom!"
by George McBob May 21, 2009
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VIP

Vaginal Irrigation Packet.

This is in accordance with the principle that anyone who would call themselves a VIP, or insist on VIP treatment is inherently a douchebag.
There go the celebs heading for the VIP seats. Total bunch of douchebags.
by George McBob May 06, 2009
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