a piece of old tackie

An especially simple or easy task. Primarily heard in South Africa. See? I told you that application would be a piece of old tackie. After so many years as an accountant, doing taxes is a piece of old tackie for me. Don't worry, after some lessons and a bit of practice, driving becomes a piece of old tackie.

tread tackie

obsolete To drive or extremely quickly; to burn rubber. Possibly connected to the adjective "tacky," referencing the effect of heat on rubber. I told him to tread tackie and we peeled out so fast that we left tracks on the pavement.

a piece of old tackie

an easy task.

1979 Cape Times Getting the news of the Zimbabwe Rhodesian ceasefire to the… guerillas might well make Paul Revere's famous midnight ride look like a piece of old tackie.

tread tackie

drive or accelerate.

1989 Daily Dispatch By the time they finally trod tackie on the road out, a full week had gone by.

Tackies are plimsolls. The origin of the word is uncertain, though there may be a connection with the English adjective tacky , meaning ‘slightly sticky’, perhaps referring to the effect of extreme heat on the plimsolls' rubber soles.