Kaatje Kekkelbek
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is an iconic and stereotypical South African “coloured” stage character, first appearing in the George Rex and Andrew Bain sketch Kaatje Kekkelbek, or Life Among the Hottentots(Grahamstown, 1838-44?). The name has become synonomous with the loquatious and forward "(Cape) coloured" house-hold maid. Under different guises this character was to appear in a variety of plays in English, Dutch and Afrikaans over the years, including plays by Stephen Black, Guy Butler and André P. Brink.
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