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Common Signs In Johannesburg & Kwazulu-Natal<\/p><\/div> Ingozi is the Zulu\/Xhosa word for ‘danger’ and it is regularly seen on signs in South Africa “Danger, Gevaar, Ingozi” – the other language being Afrikaans. Ingozi is also the word for danger in “Fanagalo” the patois & lingua-franca of African miners (who may be afrikaans, xhosa, english, zulu etc) The word was chosen as it has a good sound, has an ‘i’ at the front and back and a zed in it! The word is also very close the word ‘Nkosi’ which means Lord or God in Xhosa and is part of the South African national anthem – a Xhosa song – “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More Signs from South Africa<\/p><\/div>\n Links<\/strong><\/p>\n Where the name Ingozi comes from: Ingozi is the Zulu\/Xhosa word for ‘danger’ and it is regularly seen on signs in South Africa “Danger, Gevaar, Ingozi” – the other language being Afrikaans. Ingozi is also the word for danger in “Fanagalo” the patois & lingua-franca of African miners (who may be afrikaans, xhosa, english, zulu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhere the name Ingozi comes from:<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"More](\"http:\/\/ingozi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ingozi-gevaar1.jpg\" "\\"ingozi-gevaar1\\"")
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