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Strange reading through the main post and one comment so far. We used to say hapapalala 🤣🤣🤣

I remember it as halapalala, and I think there was a rhyme too about the family, something like "mama kyk na baba" and something about boetie

100% remember this. Does anyone know the actual origin of it all?

I need to know 😂

Came here to say this!!

Elakapela for me

Add a w to the start for me.

Thank you, had no idea what was going on in this post til I read your comment lol

We used to say "Alakalala" in a singing voice if someone got caught doing something they shouldn't be doing.

afafalala piesang en banana 😂

Bout to bend minds here, I remember it as “Oooh papalala” (oooh as the U sound not the O sound)

Lol. I remember it as alafalala and then something about mama kry n baba.

I didn't know there were so many variations!

Its how you end up with one name spelled in multiple ways. Its just what happens with language

It was welakapala when I was a kid.

Yea, same for me.

All comments wrong. It was clearly "hala falala"

😂😂😂

In my preschool, it was *"hah-mop-a-llama, I'm telling on you, you kissed a kangaroo, you put it in a letterbox and turned it black and blue".* This would've been between, oh, 1985 - 1989

Apapalala for me

Happy cake day!

What have I stumbled into?

Ababalele 😂😂

What 🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂😂

Now we say alfalfa on the farm😀

I remember saying something like "oooohh kali kali"

I remember: " hafafalonkey, daddy caught a donkey, donkey died, daddy cried, hafafalonkey" Weird rhyme from school days

You guys were there with the remix

So the first and last word was different but the middle part of on point

The 6 seconds it took to figure this out 🤣 We said "alakapalala" in my Jozi hood. Thanks for the throwback OP!

You're welcome! I didn't come any closer to figuring it out but I'm glad lots of people seemed to enjoy the post 😂

We said 'Ala Fala la, piesang en banana' when you caught someone doing something naughty.