SADF slang glossary Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- National servicemen conscripted into the South African Defence Force used a language of their own. It was made up from Afrikaans, English, slang and techno-speak. Some of it was funny, some of it clever, and a lot of it downright crude.
In part one we give you the N to Z of some of the more common terms used.
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Nice reminder of our past boet. If i could go back and do it again i would and thats from a Soutpiel now in the UK. I miss what we faught for. Cheers.
Can only agree with you. I was originally from Ireland and had only been here for two years when I was called up. I loved every minute of it.
+happybiker Jou naai!
another soutpiel here , volunteered in 1983 went to 61 as a weapons tiffie , me a mad scotsman with all the arms and explosives to play with , i loved it
Visagie - A term for a service dodger who studies law at Potch, drives a red alfa romeo and keeps your girl company while you are on the border, usually followed by a "dear johnny".
That's just reminded me... REMF's - didn't we just hate the lot!!
So, basically a South African Jody
"Dankie Tannie" stuff received from the supporters in the "States"....Pens, nail clippers, playing cards etc.
Supporters in the States.......Southern Cross Fund.
I was waiting for soutpiel, taxis and varkpan.
Nicely done.
This brought back some memories.
Nice reminder...
So many memories.......haha, thanks for the laughs.
The funniest moments were during guard duty in basics at the main gate. You had to salute anything up to Major and present arms to anyone with more rank. At dusk and at night we couldn't see into the rear of the cars driving up and saluted only to scramble to present arms as we realised it was the commandant 😅😂 By then the vehicle had sped off into the base! Must have been hilarious to those on board 🤣 (at least we didn't have to stand inspection for once!)
I thought that any rifle with 7.62 x 51mm ammo could be a battle rifle. Assault rifles use intermediate rounds.
Chicken A LA hand grenade...SADF’s version of chicken a la king
Or "chicken a la landmine", as we called it 😄
"White gold", love it! "Een rol, per hol, per week, sakkies!" - remember basics in Kimberley well 😆(SA Int School, Diskobolos)
Those were good days, would do them again. Nothing like the smell of diesel and dust on a cold winters morning while having rat pack coffee, trying to warm your hands at the exhaust pipe of a ratel.
You forgot 'clutch plate' engelsman for Dutchman..
Some of the rat pack stuff was well tasty. There was a stew that you could be mugged for, from what I remember. Was worth 2 tins of condensed milk usually, if you were in a mind to swap.
This brought back a lot of memories
Energy bars in Rat Packs were Tarzan bars.
You forgot about the Kwévoel 50 (Armoured SAMIL 50)
It's not gatkryp but gatkruip
Regarding White Gold - Een rol per hol per dag
An excellent video.
this is great thanks for sharing.
Regarding rat packs, there were also incidentally the green Portuguese ones that were used in Angola.
You forgot index finger and pinkie finger , for min dae or baie dae. Many days or a few days left in the operational area.
And, on civvie street that meant 'safe'.
i love the PF one,, its english name is best,, because that is what thy were and are, so glad when the army was close down for military' service,wonder what thy did after that,
Step Outs was also used for any item deep fried in batter i.e spam or Ovambo piels in step outs. Fitter and Turner - Chefs - who take food fit for a king and turn it into crap. Flat dog was a term we used for crocs on the border (Sector 70) Flamgat was the nickname given to the the jet pilots. Fly Spy was a term used to describe the Medical Health Inspector usually hated by the medical officers as they had done years of study while he did a diploma in 2 years or so and got the same rank as them.
With that soutpiel one, it also shows how much they knew about Geography, because halfway between South Africa and England is land.
My father was an immigrant from Germany, and we only spoke English at home. Once in the Army someone called me a 'soutpiel'. So, I said 'Een voet in Duitsland ja' (One foot in Germany, yes.) That quickly shut him up, as it messed up that stereotype.
Did I miss SAWI?
Lekker to hear these again. Always wondered where the name for the Land Rovers - ‘Garry’ came from
The landrovers were all diesels. When they idled, the sounded like Garry-Garry-Garry...
@@ockertbrits6907 "A gharry or gharri is a horse-drawn cab used especially in India."
I think the term came from the poms via India and (I read somewhere) Kenya to SA as we were all colonies at some stage.
Carrots = ''nagsig'' refers to nightvision equipment to enable night observation ( it is believed that carrots improve one's eye sight, ) "chicken alla king'' military version off course = skrapnel which refer to the scrapnel of a bomb when it exploded, Red cross swiss pocket knive, which always made out part and parcell of our chrismas gifts while serving our country on the border = ''dankie tannie mes'' because these christmas gifts was organised by the woman back home, as to show their appreciation to the troops in them sacrafising safety and comfort. I have never again expierenced that same wonderfull level of comaradi, I suppose that is what happens when a group of people together shares a common goal , wat lekker saam afkak :-)
I'm sorry we didn't help you folks.
On Behalf of the People of the United States, please accept our apology.
Apology accepted :-))
Don't know if you can recall the part about the SA defense guys saying they from the States? (Seen you posted long ago). The reason for that is because while the SA guys were fighting in the south of Angola, the CIA was helping the FNLA in the north, so on our side, and if captured, a SA guy would say he was American. However after 10 months the USA (Nixon) stopped all aid. So in a way you guys did try, but a shady president put an end to it. Nothing to apologize for!
Dankie Tannie mes uit die Dankie Tannie pakkie
@@peterr7530 Supplied in a "Suiderkruis Fonds" zip-up bag which also included a pocket bible, a novel, a nail-clipper and a thank-you letter from a primary school kid.
Those 'varkpiels' or (heating) elements were always banned. When first arriving in the Army, and had one, would have it confiscated.
Wow .. what memories -- 5 NAI (SAI), corporals call me gesiggie -- I always thought it meant "face" -- Only later on learnt it was "pansy" -- varkpanne -- a steak was a 2X4 after the rifle cleaning cloth -- ended up in PDK -- on account of the secretary bird emblem -- we were called "Krans Kakkers"
Mogs. Short for flatbed Unimogs. Flatdogs. Slang for Crocodiles. We also called a one liner "n Blygemaakte troep" ( private soldier who has had a smile stuck on his face -- sort of ) . Enos ( pronounced like the tablets ) . Short for someone who knew everything ( even though mostly he did not ) . People would say "Don't ask me , ask him Enos'. The "Vault" . Another way to say Greefswald. Stealing kit was called "organising" stuff. Kit would be "organised" back and forth. And Moer Koffie. That "coffee" that they brought out in those bain maire type holders. And lastly Blue Stone. Potassium Permangenate they put in the custard to keep the wanking rate down in basic training .
GOD= Slang for Sarg, because you would no more want to piss him off than you would God.
Is it voelvel or voorvel for the issued sleeping bag
Cuttie & Spread..bread and butter/margarine.
I'm sorry we didn't help you folks.
On Behalf of the People of the United States, please accept our apology.
Not true. We in the N.H. just needed to not turn our backs.
GODDAMN SOUTH AFRICA! A SHITTYASS COUNTRY DURING APARTHIED AND AFTER APARTHEID!
You don't have to be sorry. At the time we kicked arse. The politicians gave it all away. Hence a lot of good people died for nothing. As usual in war.
@Charl Jacobs :
I need to ship it to you! I'm not a billionare. *_:(..._*
@Charl Jacobs :
It all hinges on what happens on November 3rd, mate! If Trump wins (and there seems to be little reason why not) we're gonna' deal with ANTIFA/BLM the hard way! We're gonna sell 'em to Red-China! for use in those Uygar Prisons, over in Xinjiang *_>:)_* Just like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing
Any Body from my old basics camp ? 22 Field Engineers Regiment Bethlehem ? Also known as Piet de Gat !
AWAL. Away from base without leave . PAS. Permission to leave base.
Colonialism, Universalism, Globalism, Messianism, Milleniarism and Monotheism are the greatest horrors in history.
and all of this was 4nothing,, just messed up out lives, until today im messed up mentally ,, heheehee bosbefok, but really all for nothing,, land was just given back to Swapo on a silver platter...men's lives body messed up. if i could have my life over i would of never gone to army,,
Kots Koets(puke wagon) = DC4 Dakota, NDP(Nationale Diens Pligte/ National Service Man) = Naai Die Poes.
Naai sakkie - sewing kit
Pram Spanners - hands
Sant Marias - army issue underpants
Sleg moer - lazy person
It is a pity that the many Bantu men are left out of this Intro -- such as 32 Battalion...
Just the foremost Elite Infantry Unit of the SADF...
(1)Tin of "Corn Beef Hash" in Afrikaans was Beespoeshaas...(Cow Cunt Rabbit). (2)Oat meal cookie = Dog Biscuit. (3)Tin water bottle cover in which liquid could be heated or drunk from = Fire Bucket. (4) G3K3 referred to medically unfit for duty, also "spastic" or Jelly fish. (5) Landmyn Hoender (Landmine chicken) was the term for Chicken Ala king. (6) Civvy, being a person not in the army. (7) Meat Pie = member of Military Police. (8) DEKKING!!!! Shouted as warning to hit the deck if a grenade is thrown. (9) Audi Murphy or "Grenvegter"(Border Fighter) = derogatory reference to a wannabe bull-shitter with imaginary war experience.
LMAO at "Corn Beef Stew". Never made sense at the time but it did later.🤣🤣🤣
Pissvel was the term i knew for a sleeping bag
Pissvel was the blue and white cover over your mattress while in barracks
I remember it as that stupid mattress cover (on the foam mattress) that you conveniently "lost" because you couldn't square your bed
@Stuart campbell Our sleeping bags had two separate "bags", the thick outer one and the thin inner one. We know the inner one as the "pissvel".
Oc was my dad.
Vasbyt-rather bite tight in English..
Southafrica belongs to Zulu, Venda, Xhosa, Saan, Khoi-Khoi, etc, etc, etc not to White Anglosaxons and boers.
Grensvegter, border warder, bloed kots, ?
Jy praat so vinning jy maak my meer bosbefok as n shabien met geen of swam bier. Jy moet n roounek van natal wees of n blygemaakde troep. Dit Val onder n boer pampoen. MP van mm ovs of selfdede. Proebeer weer Rooinek jy like Jake nie op n perade grand nie. Halt en omkeer. Foorste pressie af. Push-ups. As on nie saamwerk nie dan