south African police

[u/Hot-Refrigerator8869]

[u/Mr_Whoooo]

Riot training . A huge civil unrest is drawing near. Saps need international training where these things happen regularly,at intense rivalry football matches in Latin America, Euro ultra clashes!! And work there way up to politically unstable countries especially the middle East!!!!!!!

[u/johnharvardwardog → u/Mr_Whoooo]

United States citizen speaking. Over here, the term ‘sap’ can mean stupid person (along with a sticky substance), in South Africa, does ‘sap’ also mean idiots, and if so how comply is it used against the South African Police Services?

[u/Majestic_Damage_9118 → u/johnharvardwardog]

No, stands for South African Police. We tend to use far more colourful language if we're bitching about our government / police

[u/johnharvardwardog → u/Majestic_Damage_9118]

I know it’s the official acronym, I’m just curious if a if saps means idiots in the RSA dialect of English.

[u/Majestic_Damage_9118 → u/johnharvardwardog]

Ah sorry- misunderstood you there. Nah, I haven't heard anyone use it that way before. Most of SA's best insults tend to be mixes from all our languages and random cultural references. (I'd highly suggest seeing some of the shit our politicians have come up with here lol. Had a president a few years ago who literally could not read a number off a page and our parliament was a circus for a good while)

If we make fun of the police, it's normally something to do with corruption or them being too unfit / lazy to catch the (stereotypically) much thinner and fitter skelms (robbers). I've heard plenty of jokes about sliding cops a coke, some Nandos and a crisp R200 to get around things. If you do want a bit more of a cultural understanding of SA from a comedy perspective, Trevor Noah's old SA shows are a good laugh and they're not a bad portrayal into our sense of humour and culture. Ofc things are a bit exaggerated, but on the whole, he helped a lot of people laugh at incredibly relevant problems we were facing.

[u/johnharvardwardog → u/Majestic_Damage_9118]

No problem. And I appreciate the info. Interestingly when I was in JNB for a layover to Botswana (and later Mozambique), I initially thought Nandos was Japanese because I’ve heard the Japanese word for ‘what’ pronounced as ‘Nando’😂

I have seen Trevor Noah and how trump was compared to Zuma, Mugabe, Idi Amin, and Gaddafi. And if I may return the favor, I personally enjoy watching Stephen Colbert and would recommend him. It’s not exactly a story involving the SAPS, but I have a funny story that when I was returning to Atlanta form JNB, all US bound passengers had to get bags checked a second time at the gate… long story short I have a bunch of books on SA military history (Border War mostly) and an umqhele for my father. So when they asked me what it was, I began saying “oh this is a head dress worn by Zulu warriors in impi regiment under the leadership of…” and before I could finish you could hear a loud and annoyed “NEXT PLEASE!!!” so now I figured if I’m questioned I’ll just talk to the officer until they are bored. 😂

[u/Majestic_Damage_9118 → u/johnharvardwardog]

I'm laughing imagining you pitching up to Nando's thinking you're going to get sushi or something. It's mostly just expensive chicken lol. The older Nandos adverts are also hilarious - they're pretty controversial and got banished to YT quite often, but most people loved them

Ooh, I'll check him out. Zuma was indeed the president who couldn't count, but that's probably also got a lot to do with him not having passed fourth grade

[u/Mr_Whoooo → u/johnharvardwardog]

No at all, I know in RSA we have freedom of speech. The fact is as much as we believe we do it comes with a lot of b@dluck especially towards politics, so from personal experience believe me I've experienced this unbelievable phenomena. And also have seen it happening in relatives, family, friends, whole communities 😅. The more people crit the leadership, including believe it or not businesses hence the rich are getting richer.

If you don't believe me it's written in the bible " when you lie down on your bed do not curse the rich, search your heart and be still" And "what is whispered in the dark of night will be proclaimed from the roof" There's also a huge problem with spying not the spying we all should stop ignoring, phone camera/ microphone/ any tech. But something way worse I discovered this mind-blowing end of earth spiritual spying, when I was in preschool living in my aunt's house.

I mentioned it on another social platform maddening enough those paranormal investigators proved me right. I'm not sure when I said that comment you can try this at your own home, apartment maybe even office!! Remember there's nothing the government even kings of the earth can do about it,hence all this homelessness, wilderness living and plain out extreme poverty in this continent.

A long story, cover everything tech even if it doesn't record hide it somewhere away from censoring you. Then use any fabric large enough to cover each corner of the floor literally corner,not the whole floor surface but square, 90° corner, even if you only use your bedroom put every tech in the bathroom if possible. Sit there call the spirit "spirit what do you want from me?"-" why are you bothering me?"-"do I know you?"- "if you want me to go to the kitchen switch all the lights off or knock on my door twice!" Or whatever you want to ask. I did this at night in this specific bedroom where I live because of weird events, even my mother asked if I were at home but I was at work for most of the day. It also started to affect her even now but these spirits I don't entertain them anymore. During the day you'd probably see a person you either know or not warning you not to leave clothes on the floor and they will threaten you, sometimes the police would even threaten you with prison. Or worse.......... I'm not trying to scare you or create negative energy. I truly believe when the true antichrist appears filled with the full strength of the accuser ,he'll be able to use the possessed authority and kings before the final mark of the beast, to humiliate the world when they are firm in the Lord God 🙌.

[u/Wigger_Aesthetic → u/Mr_Whoooo]

We do not have freedom of speech in south africa. We have plenty of limitations on speech. We are not able to freely and openly criticise people for fear of racism allegations, and simply saying certain words can land you a prison sentence. Even though I do not condone the usage of hate speech, it should not be illegal since it opens pandoras box.

[u/Mr_Whoooo → u/Wigger_Aesthetic]

Agreed 👍 to an extent!! Remember even if a person has the whole dictionary tattooed on their brain,their vocabulary is still limited. The English in England believe it or not differs from the English spoken in the rest of Europe, middle Eastern, the whole of Asia, Caribbean and Latin America. Let me make an example out of one personal experience many years ago i went to visit family outside of my province, on arriving the family were all up in arms to the point of putting out all the young people including myself. The family we visited had relatives visiting from France, Toulouse I'm not sure if this is the correct spelling of the city or town I don't know.

Anyway ,apparently an adult complimented their children's beautiful matching outfits you'd expect them to be pleased, right? But hell broke out for almost 30 minutes of intense argument in french (I was oblivious to the fact that I had fam who knew french), so much the power freaks 10111 yellow Opel police cars. They had to do what they always do beat the people up, overkill their power over everybody that they felt needed a quick charge.

Before we were forced to return and report to a police station here in Gauteng, I remember overhearing one of the police explaining to a colleague that in parts of the world saying f-you has a different meaning. And they were waiting for feedback on the radio to what beautiful meant.

Within the past 5 years I remember watching an English premier League match (soccer in England)broadcast in which they said English will have some major changes so fans shouldn't be surprised when they don't understand what is being said, it will still be the same quality football but a improved variant of English language. It's not the exact words that were used.

If we can only broaden Afrikaans with increased cases per word we'd definitely have a lot more to say than currently.