"This dictionary was developed in collaboration with the Dictionary Unit for South African English, based at Rhodes University. The Unit's team of lexicographers researches and documents the changing English that South Africans speak and write, and its database is the source of the hundreds of South African entries in this dictionary. These include words assimilated from other southern African languages, such as breyani, lekgotla, and bosberaad; names of plants, animals, and ecosystems, such as fynbos, button spider, kingklip; legal terms such as antenuptial contract, voetstoots, and Aquilian liability; institutions and initiatives, for example AU, GEAR, NEPAD, and NQF; slang such as oke, zol, and moffie. Many, like boereqanga, conflict diamond, and chakalaka are new. Their inclusion makes this dictionary an unrivalled reference for anyone using South African English."--BOOK JACKET.