Botha’s Babe, noun phrase
- Forms:
- Also Botha Babe.
- Origin:
- See quotation 1980.
historical, colloquial
soldoedie; usually in the plural, used collectively.
1971 Daily Dispatch 1 June 1Botha’s Babes, the Army girls who came all the way from George to show their paces, were hot favourites with the crowd.
1980 E. Prov. Herald 4 Dec.Military rules..have had to be re-interpreted at the South African Army Women’s College in George...Every year about 500 ‘Botha’s Babes’ pass through the college, which was opened in 1971 by Mr P.W. Botha, then Minister of Defence.
soldoedie; usually in the plural, used collectively.
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