Get ready to hear “Jessica we are live,” a lot today in South Africa.

A video recently went viral of an on-air SABC broadcast between a newsreader and Namibian sports reporter, Jessica.

Elmarie Kapund (the newsreader) was simply wrapping up her news beat and handing over the baton to Jessica. However, Kapund didn’t deliver her cue exactly as it had been rehearsed, and Jessica decided to express how things should be done. On air.

It’s safe to say Jessica decided to unleash a bit of sass.

I’ll say less, and you can watch it here, Cape {town} Etc’s Ashleigh Nefdt writes.

As always, the comments are probably funnier than the video. Here are people’s reactions 

If we’re not remixing political statements into songs (remember ‘When People Zol?’) we’re on the hunt for new things to add to the list of our South African expressions, and I think “Jessica we are live,” may well be the heir to the slang throne, (but we still move.)

“Jessica we are live” will probably translate roughly to telling someone to calm down, or to rest when they are getting too heated, especially in public. It’s that polite way of telling someone “it’s just not the time, and people are watching.”

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