ANC – African National Congress; formed first legitimately elected democratic government of South Africa
Bakkie – Afrikaans slang: pick-up truck
Bokkie – Afrikaans slang: beautiful woman
Bossies – Afrikaans slang: bush dementia
Bliksem – Afrikaans slang: bastard
China – Rhodesian slang: friend
DGSE – Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure: French intelligence agency
Doffs – Afrikaans slang: idiots.
Glide – Rhodesian slang: trip
Lekker – Afrikaans slang: nice, sweet
Okes – Afrikaans slang: guy
Oom – Afrikaans slang: uncle (word of respect)
Ooma – Afrikaans slang: aunty, old woman, grandmother (word of respect)
Parabat – Army slang: South African paratrooper; also vliesbom (meat bomb)
Operation COAST – Apartheid South Africa’s super-secret chemical and biological weapons programme
Poppie – Afrikaans slang: doll
R4 – standard issue 5.56 mm calibre assault rifle of South African Army, the South African-made version of the Israeli Galil rifle, semi-automatic
Rofie – Afrikaans slang: new recruit
Rondfok – Afrikaans slang: literally ‘circle fuck’
SADF – South African Defence Forces
Seun – Afrikaans: son
Sitrep – situation report
SWAPO – South West Africa People’s Organisation; rebel group fighting for Namibian independence
Torch Commando – banned underground organisation of mostly white South Africans dedicated to overthrowing apartheid
TRC – South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Desmond Tutu, started in 1996 to help heal the wounds after apartheid
Valk – Afrikaans for hawk, the designation for a platoon of South African Army paratroopers, approximately thirty men
Volkstaat – Afrikaans for the dreamed-of independent Afrikaner homeland
Vrot – Afrikaans slang: wasted, intoxicated
Zut – Rhodesian slang: nothing