Kaatje Kekkelbek

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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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