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Mampara

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Mampara (Fool)

"O mampara wena (You're a fool)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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August 2025

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South African slang for a buffoon or a fool.

"Julius Malema is the biggest mampara ever, followed closely by Jacob Zuma"
Mampara 🇿🇦 South Africa

Fool / idiot.

"Don't be a mampara."

🇧🇼 About Botswana Slang

Botswana slang merges Setswana with English, with Gaborone youth driving a modern lexicon influenced by South African township culture.

KASINARY has 1824 Botswana slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Mampara" Across Africa

This word is also used in 4 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Mampara

Idiot or fool.
Mampara 🇿🇦 South Africa

Fool / idiot.
Mampara 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Sethoto / Leqheku (Idiot / Fool)
Mampara 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Munhu akapusa (Fool)

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