takkies

An hour of Samba on tar in takkies is not the best way to treat your feet.

Archive 2009-03-01 HayleyM 2009

An hour of Samba on tar in takkies is not the best way to treat your feet.

UCT RAG Floats 09 HayleyM 2009

For South Africans, traffic lights are called robots, "takkies" are trainers and placing your thumb between your forefinger and second finger and pointing it at someone is an obscene gesture, the guide advises.

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Wherever Rory walked — he couldn't be indoors for long — he feared starting a wildfire by the mere scuff of his takkies, the touch of shoulder or hip to the matchstick grasses.

Watershed 2010

So I and a fuming Dad had gone to the Alps on our own and had climbed a mountain in veldskoens and takkies and cotton clothing and been caught in a sleet shower on the way down and been unable to grip and, in a very real way, had contemplated falling to our deaths in the icy river several hundred feet below for more hours than I care to remember.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Maud padded through in Bata takkies and stopped by the dining room table.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

So I and a fuming Dad had gone to the Alps on our own and had climbed a mountain in veldskoens and takkies and cotton clothing and been caught in a sleet shower on the way down and been unable to grip and, in a very real way, had contemplated falling to our deaths in the icy river several hundred feet below for more hours than I care to remember.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

And of course, there was Bata, shoe store to the nation, where farmers bought their veldskoens (fawn-colored, rough suede “veld” shoes) and white kids bought rubber Slip Slop sandals and blacks and whites alike bought takkies (white plimsolls), which we all wore till our toes protruded from the sides.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Maud padded through in Bata takkies and stopped by the dining room table.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

And of course, there was Bata, shoe store to the nation, where farmers bought their veldskoens (fawn-colored, rough suede “veld” shoes) and white kids bought rubber Slip Slop sandals and blacks and whites alike bought takkies (white plimsolls), which we all wore till our toes protruded from the sides.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007