
I’m a Kendrick level hater. Recovering Architect, Southern Urbanist, Writer, Researcher. #YNWA
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined February 2012
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Thinking you can afford all of that on those salaries is hilarious.
An ideal and healthy household is where the wife earns R15k–R25k, while the husband earns R50k–R75k or more.
Living in a fenced three-bedroom house with a garage, raising two kids who speak English, and owning two cars a BMW and Toyota Bakkie.
Both working Monday to Friday, with no late shifts, overtime, or night shifts. Always home by 5 pm, making time for the kids’ school activities and spending weekends together as a family.
Now that’s what you call a clean, peaceful life without unnecessary stress. ❤️👊🏽
Related, but unrelated. I find myself disappointed sometimes at concerts of my favourite international artists because MY favourite songs tend to not be the most popular/charting songs by that artists, so they are often left out concert set lists.
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You go into a coffee shop, buy a take away coffee and the card machine automatically asks you for a tip and the person assisting you is just staring at you. I will VOTE for Whoever is prepared to abolish this practice.
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Can we talk about how we normalised no street lights in Gauteng?
Fancy neighbourhoods and townships alike.
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Research has also shown that it is the probability of being caught that deters and not the severity of the punishment itself.
It’s why I think so many people drink and drive in this country. They don’t believe they will be caught/have to face any consequences.
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We keep seeing the same assumption in SA sports:
“Affluent South Africans follow rugby. Football is the mass-market sport.”
So I looked specifically at the affluent audience.
The latest data actually makes football look VERY interesting.
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On a trip to Mbombela, I realised just how much the cadence of Ndebele and siSwati spoken there reminded me of “Joburg Zulu”, and I realised that we always just assumed that people were speaking a diluted version of Zulu, kanti it’s a Nguni hybrid that has been pieced together.
Understanding Johannesburg burg Zulu:
Joburg Zulu is the Zulu dialect spoken in Johannesburg and surrounding areas. This variant diverges slightly from the dialects spoken in KZN, and a huge part of the divergence is due to major (Southern) Ndebele and Swati influences, with Sotho, Afrikaans, and isiXhosa also contributing to this dialect.
When Johannesburg was rising due to the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand, mines needed workers, and many Black natives availed themselves for this job. Multiple hostels were set up which housed Black miners and many of those miners came from KZN, Lesotho, Free State, eSwatini, Eastern Cape, and Mozambique mixing with Transvaal native Tswana, Pedi, and Ndebele groups. Nguni peoples, particularly Zulus, outnumbered the other groups in the hostels.
Fanagalo essentially was the precursor to the new Joburg Zulu variant - sort of a prototype of the incoming multiethnic language. Joburg Zulu did not start during the Sophiatown era, but rather developed in the late 19th century when the Witwatersrand mines were heavily connected - combining mines from as far as Nigel with mines that were located in the west of Johannesburg. People would travel between these areas - some moving from one mine to another increasing the population of the PWV (Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging) and spreading the newly developed creole culture that was born in these mining hostels.
In later years, the language would develop regional variants, with the eastern variant (East Rand Zulu) getting even more Swati and Ndebele influence, and the western (Soweto, Alexandra, etc.) and southern variants (Vereeniging) getting more Sotho and Tswana influences. All the variants do still share a lot of the Ndebele, Sotho, and Swati influences, but the different influences are felt much more strongly in some areas than others. isiXhosa, Afrikaans, and English words are shared across all variants, i.e. muur (wall), Vestera (window), Bulisa (greet), emva (behind), kuva (to hear) and more.
Ndebele influences:
Kawosi, Khabo/Kibo,bebahamba, ukukhamba, usesemncane, Phasi, Phosa, intloko etc.
Sotho:
Marago, Tswayi, Pona Pona, Voiceless velar fricative (kg sound) etc.
Xhosa:
Kawosi, Intloko, bulisa, izibunu, cima, uyayiva, emva, intombazana, etc.
Swati:
Coca, canda, cala, ceda, chubeka and other overlaps with Nbebele
Videos:
1 Joburg Zulu speaker
2 KZN Zulu speaker






















