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🎶 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

Howzit

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
  2. 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!

  3. Just now
  4. 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.

  5. Robot
  6. 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).

  7. Izit? / Sho?
  8. 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!!

Rules for joining/members of Team South Africa

  1. Follow @teamsouthafrica.
  2. The @teamsouthafrica account will follow all official members back - this is the ONLY official list of members. View the current list here.

  3. Follow and upvote any existing members of Team South Africa that you share a common interest with (no need to follow all members).
  4. Regularly check the #teamsouthafrica recent tags and upvote the content you like.
  5. Comment here or DM me on Steemit.Chat or Discord informing me you would like to join.
  6. Once you’re a member, remember to use the tag #teamsouthafrica as one of the tags on your posts.
  7. 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.
  8. These rules can change at any time. Please always make sure you are checking the latest post for the latest rules.

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.

cheeto.blue
Team South Africa banner designed by @bearone

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You little beauty - the Saffas have arrived - so what shall it be then ladies and gentlemen - cricket or rugby? We'll take you guys on in either.

SirKnight
SECRETARY TEAM AUSTRALIA

We certainly have @sirknight 😁
As long as it's union and not league or Aussie rules - we play real rugby - hehe 😉

cheeto.blue
TEAM SOUTH AFRICA

Hi @cheeto.blue, I am also from South Africa, Limpopo province. I would like to be added to the list. I have followed @teamsouthafrica and busy following people on the list. (Edit: Ok done following all the members)

Welcome to the team!! @teamsouthafrica has followed you back :)
Try join us on the Discord chat to meet your fellow team members...
Where in Limpopo are you from??

At the moment our house is in Tzaneen. But I am working between Springs and Brakpan currently and only go home one week each month.
We actually stayed all over the place from Pietersburg, Steelpoort, Naboomspruit these were all over the last 10 - 15 years.

Wow, you from my new of the woods!! Awesome :)

Welcome @reaverza! I hope you have a WONDERFUL day. Following you.

Yay!!! Congratulations on your launch @teamsouthafrica! Welcome to the family! ❤ @steemph & @teamaustralia

I upvoted and resteemed!

Thank you so much. Where in Australia are you from? I hope you have a WONDERFUL day. Following you.

You're both welcome!

Sorry for the late reply lol Im still trying out that hiatus thing @cheeto.blue ;)

@pjcswart I'm in NSW. Thank you! Following you back!

I hope you're all having a great day Team South Africa!

Thanks, now problem. I tried to cut and paste that banner and it didn't quite work, not sure if I did something wrong...

Which banner brother? I think best person to speak to about T.SA graphics would be @cheeto.blue :)

This one, he sent it to me

Here is the code to your two Team South Africa banners.
Please copy and paste the code below “as is” to use one of your unique banners on your posts. This will ensure that the logo has the appropriate link attached and that the author is credited correctly.

Banner 01:

signature
Team South Africa banner designed by @bearone

Banner 02:

signature
Team South Africa banner designed by @bearone

Did you come right with the code when using it in a post @pjcswart??

No not yet, I get some residual brackets and stuff, and the pic is not clickable.

Ah, you guys are so awesome!!! Thanks @bearone :)

Awesooooome, sho....happy to be here! I know we will go from strength to strength!

I agree, where in SA are you from?

Newcastle, KZN :)

Cool. What do you do?

I have a second hand shop and sell online.

Beautiful. What do you sell?

Second hand stuff in the shop, collectibles online. The link to that is on my cover.

What do you sell second hand? Cars?

Man this is cool, glad to be part of the team.
Team South Africa, jou lekker ding :D

Glad to have you here man :)

The result of being bored :D

teamsouthafrica1.jpg

You bored waaaay too often man ;)

This post received a 3.0% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @bdmomuae! For more information, click here!

An absolutely splendid job of officially introducing @teamsouthafrica!!! Love it!!! "Ons gaan nou braai!!" Translated - "We're going to have a bbq now. Just sit back, relax and enjoy yourself. It will happen in good time!!"

I hope you have a WONDERFUL day. Following you. Where in SA are you from?

Hey hey, howzit @pjcswart. Cool, thanks for the follow :):) I'm from Cape Town, yourself? Yeah man, been having a lekker chilled out day today. OFF WORK TODAY :) Edit: Never mind, I saw further down Pretoria :)

No problem, you're welcome. What do you do?

Awesome nice post glad to be part of the team

Glad to have you on the team @louiscpt :)

Hi Louis, I'm from Pretoria. Welcome!

Lekker man! Shame, I want one of those banners too, want ek like dit!
:) Upvoted and resteemed!

Will do the banners tonight and get yours to you :)

Ooh, thanks for the @randowhale upvote :D

Sharp man
:P

Welcome @bdmomuae where in SA are you from? I hope you have a WONDERFUL day. Following you.

Hi @pjcswart. I am from Mpumalanga but I'm living in Abu Dhabi now. Thank you for the welcome, I will follow back ;)

Great thanks! Must be HOT there now!

Extremely! Burnt to a crisp! lol

hehe LOL. Are you guys diplomats?

Happy days!

Certainly is :)

Hi and welcome @snapperlize! Where in SA are you from? I am organizing a STEEMIT event in Pretoria for 23 Sep. I hope you have a WONDERFUL day. Following you.