Zamenspraak tusschen Klaas Waarzegger en Jan Twijfelaar

Zamenspraak tusschen Klaas Waarzegger en Jan Twyfelaar over het onderwerp van afscheiding tusschen de Oostelyke en Westelyjke Provincie (approximately "between Klaas the Soothsayer and Jan the Doubter") by Klaas Waarzegger (nom de plume of , Louis Henri Meurant, 1811/182/1813 - 1893)

This was a collection of well-known and influential "Zamenspraake" ("dialogues") which Meurant published in The Cradock News in 1860, under the pseudonym Klaas Waarzegger ("Klaas Soothsayer"). Focussed on the split between the Eastern and Western provinces, they were entitled .

According to Ludwig Binge (1969) his literary persona, the crusty Calvinist "Klaas Waarzegger", also became an influential model for later writers and playwrights such as Melt Brink, C.J. Langenhoven, D.C. Postma and the "coloured" characters used by of later writers. This work was no doubt informed by the writings of Charles Etienne Boniface and Joseph Suasso de Lima, he in turn influenced many, including C.J. Langenhoven in the use of the starical dualogue as a cutlrual and polirtical weapon. Published in (1860/1?*) Collected in book form and first published in 1861, they were considered to be the first published book in Afrikaans. As part of his journalistic and political activities, Meurant also wrote and published some well-known and influential "Zamenspraake" (dialogues) in The Cradock News in 1860, under the pseudonym Klaas Waarzegger ("Klaas Soothsayer"). Zamenspraak tusschen Klaas Waarzegger en Jan Twijfelaar

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