skollie

skollie: noun

(South African) A gangster; or hoodlum.

In the context in which it was used, however, it meant someone who was committed to improving the lives of ordinary people, based on his own experiences of oppression and suffering. It meant someone who, without having to resort to quoting Marx and Lenin or any other political guru, could explain the struggle for freedom and engage in debates about the struggle, in the language that ordinary people could understand. It meant someone with compassion, who would not have hestitated to sacrifice his own life for the good of our country and its people. [

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