The other pole of South African jazz, where the Jazz Epistles played, where King Kong opened in 1959, where Rashid Vally ran the Kohinoor record shop, and where kwaito later grew out of house music in Soweto.
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The Dictionary of South African English gives two senses for Zola Budd: a police vehicle, especially a slow one, cited from 1985, and a minibus taxi, cited from 1987, named for the speed of the runner.
Language & Slang South Africa 1985 South Africa-wide
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Gauteng's taxi hand signs, one shape per destination, are learned by imitation and word of mouth. Susan Woolf spent nine years documenting them, published a booklet, added a braille edition and took a Wits doctorate.
Transport Johannesburg South Africa-wide
Source: Susan Woolf: Taxi Hand Sign Booklet, 2nd edition · Susan Woolf: The art of taxi hand signals
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