M.D. Teenstra
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(?*) Dutch labourer who stayed at the Cape for a few months while en route to the Dutch Indies in 1825. While there he wrote a report of his impressions, including a dialogue to illustrate the "bastardised Dutch”spoken at the Cape: this dialogue possibly represents the first dramatic use of Afrikaans, and perhaps the first consciously written Afrikaans text of any sort.
Sources
Bosman, 1928; [JH]
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