Kaatje Kekkelbek

KEKKELBEK, Kaatje. 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, 183*). The name has become synonomous with the loquatious and forward “(Cape) coloured” house-maid. Under different guises this character was to appear in a variety of plays in English and Afrikaans over the years, including plays by Stephen Black, *** , Guy Butler and André P. Brink.

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