Re: Oddly....
I looked it up in a few South African newspaper comments sections and people who claimed to be from his area/went to his high school said that the phrase *was* used in the 80s, though maybe not so very commonly.
There are regional variations in language, including insults, I'm sure there are some northern English insults that don't get used in the South and vice versa. So it's not that surprising that a phrase used in one region might not be used elsewhere in the same country.
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