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  • adjective South Africa, slang Fed up to the brim. Very upset.

Etymologies

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Afrikaans gatvol

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Examples

  • He had no doubt South Africans were "gatvol" about crime, and what was needed to stop it was making criminals realise they would be arrested, tried and sentenced.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Yet, the Native Club is simply a movement, or rather a network, of a section of our country's intelligentsia which is 'gatvol' with the dominance that whites continue to enjoy in our knowledge production sector.

    The Native Club and the national democratic project 2006

  • Yet, the Native Club is simply a movement, or rather a network, of a section of our country's intelligentsia which is 'gatvol' with the dominance that whites continue to enjoy in our knowledge production sector.

    CONTENTS: 2006

  • Kleinschmidt said NNP members in the unicity were "gatvol" (fed up).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Cape Town, he said it was a legitimate "gatvol" (fed up) response by South Africans to years of over-taxation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • He hoped Afrikaners would now quickly p! ass the "gatvol" stage of their debate, because this condition just made one "sour and constipated and unproductive".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The "gatvol" factor was important among blacks, but they were not well versed in opposition politics, she said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • She said the DP lacked the courage to form a mainstream alliance with the NP, but would consider a "white laager alliance with the far right, based on as Tony Leon put it, the 'gatvol' phenomenon rather than principled politics".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • It is disheartening and I'm sure there are many more people that are 'gatvol' of government just sitting back with their exorbitant salaries and letting these strikers be.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • She admitted however, that because so many people had experienced theft out of their luggage they could be feeling "gatvol" and not bother to complain.

    IOL: News 2009

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