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''[[Amper Maar Nog Ni]]'' ("Almost but not quite") is an early [[Cape Dutch]] tragedy by [[J.H.H. de Waal]].

Later spelled ''[[Amper Maar Nog Nie]]'' in [[Afrikaans]] 

==The original text==

Written in [[Cape Dutch]], an early version of [[Afrikaans]], it is considered to be the first [[Afrikaans]] play performed to in front of a Cape Town audience. 

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1907: The play was first performed in the [[Cardaga Saal]] ([[Cardaga Hall]]) in Cape Town.  

== Sources ==


[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 481

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