‖ndambula, noun

/(ə)ndamˈbʊːla/
Forms:
Also ndambola.
Origin:
IsicamthoShow more Isicamtho; ultimate origin unknown.
slang
In township English: tshwala sense a i.
1971 E. Mlengi in Drum Jan. 4Our most loved beer...Cast-out dolls are the only ones I know to inbibe [sic] in the ‘ndambula’. Maybe the brewers of the place she went to do not know how to brew the stuff.
1973 ‘Kid Casey’ in Drum 8 Oct. 41He will organise a nip for me at a certain joint if I can keep him company while he wets his tonsils with this ndambola at this beer hall.
1982 M. Mzamane Children of Soweto 9If it was not for what I make on the sidelines you’d still be drinking ndambula.
1982 M. Mzamane Children of Soweto 11Khulu, Monty and I drank at Shirley Scott’s Shebeen...She only sold white man’s liquor and no ndambula.
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