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- adjective South Africa, slang
Fed up to the brim. Veryupset .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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
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Kleinschmidt said NNP members in the unicity were "gatvol" (fed up).
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Cape Town, he said it was a legitimate "gatvol" (fed up) response by South Africans to years of over-taxation.
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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".
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The "gatvol" factor was important among blacks, but they were not well versed in opposition politics, she said.
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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".
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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
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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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