Scene and heard: Zef

This is a sweat-stained South African cousin to the UK's own white, working-class rap variant. It's District 9 donkLanguage reveals a lot about the culture it springs from, as anyone grappling with more than 40 Finnish variations on the word "snow" can attest. Zef is a lurid form of South African rave-rap that has grown from the ramshackle Afrikaans suburbs of Cape Town. An online glossary of zef slang contains 10 words for "masturbate" and 12 for "vagina". At the forefront of this scene is Die ...

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