🎶 Shosholoza!! 🎶

If you don’t have that tune ringing in your head now then there’s a pretty big chance you’re either a member of Team Australia, Team USA, Team Britain, Steemit Philippines or Team New Zealand 😝

GUESS WHAT OKES¹
TEAM SOUTH AFRICA HAS ARRIVED

We might be the new guys on the block, but we’re here to corrupt (oh wait, that’s our…) take over the Steemverse!!

Shame, we know you guys don’t understand us fully with our "South African accent" and all (oh, and there is more than one, by the way), but let us try and educate you a bit on how to converse with someone from Mzansi²:

1. Shame
This is an endearing term used in almost any situation.
"My sister just had a baby, shame, he’s so cute".
"Shame, he wrote his car off last night, I hope he didn’t get hurt?".
One word, any situation!
2. Just now
This could mean anything from a few minutes to a few hours (or even days for that matter). If a South African says "I’ll do it just now," well, it probably won’t happen anytime soon.
3. Robot
No, this is not some "robotic man" walking down the street - this is simply a traffic light. We also tend not to stop at these (especially after dark).
4. Izit? / Sho?
Usually used when you have absolutely no idea what your friend is talking about and you don’t want to sound stupid.
"Oh man! I sat up until 2am converting my SQL database to MariaDB".
"Izit?"

So, now that you understand us Saffas³ a bit better, we’d like to introduce you to the founding members of Team South Africa.

Founding Whales/Dolphins:

@awgbibb, @dragonslayer109 and @jacor.

Founding members:

@alainite, @anneke, @artsy-wallflower, @awgbibb, @bdmomuae, @beetroot, @benniebanana, @binarie, @breezin, @brotherbear, @byronviljoen, @capetowngirl, @cheeto.blue, @cinderella, @coindup, @colinbrazendale, @darnscotty, @dean01, @deanoza, @devonking, @dewallenband, @diebaasman, @dirkodie, @doetwa, @dragonslayer109, @dse, @enazwahsdarb, @fates, @freewheeler, @ghostgtr, @giantbear, @gunn3rfourlif3, @hope777, @jacor, @jaynie, @jodywrites, @katara.sedai, @kiligirl, @leonroode, @lizelle, @longfield98, @louiscpt, @marcel1965, @maretha94, @melkay, @moderndragon, @morkrock, @muks, @mysticlilly16, @numbnut68, @onetree, @pandamama, @papilloncharity, @petruska13, @philip.willemse, @pieterb3, @pjcswart, @plainoldme, @princessmewmew, @rahvin84, @rogerblu, @roninza, @rynow, @scotty777, @shaunmza, @snapperlize, @soulsavers, @sportspodium, @stardust, @sweetpea, @tanyaschutte, @the-housewife, @thedarksideshow, @themagus, @themanswife, @themessup, @therneau, @veejay, @whistlejacket, @wildone, @xxsenpaixsamaxx and @yvonnebraaf.

A big shoutout to @kiligirl for her diligent work on tracing down so many South Africans!!

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Rules for joining/members of Team South Africa

1. Follow @teamsouthafrica.
The @teamsouthafrica account will follow all official members back - this is the ONLY official list of members. View the current list here.
2. Follow and upvote any existing members of Team South Africa that you share a common interest with (no need to follow all members).
3. Regularly check the #teamsouthafrica recent tags and upvote the content you like.
4. Comment here or DM me on Steemit.Chat or Discord informing me you would like to join.
5. Once you’re a member, remember to use the tag #teamsouthafrica as one of the tags on your posts.
6. The official Team South Africa banners and logos are only allowed to be used by official members or with consent from myself. When using a banner, it has to be linked to here and credit has to be given to the author.
7. These rules can change at any time. Please always make sure you are checking the latest post for the latest rules.

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Note to current members

We are currently in the process of testing a few more ideas on how the team can benefit from each other’s support. I can’t give away too much info on this right now, but stay tuned for these exciting updates!

Please contact me so I can arrange to get you your Team South Africa banner (with your name on). I’ll send you the actual "code" you can copy and paste which will add the banner, link it, and credit the author at the same time.
A big shoutout to @bearone for creating our banners/signatures!

If you haven’t joined our Discord chat server as yet - please go here to chat with us and catch up on your other team mates.
Thanks so much to our Moderators @darnscotty, @philip.willemse and @the-housewife for their time and effort keeping the chats clean.

¹People

²South Africa

³South Africans