5.2 Absent Father of Kaaps

5.2 Absent Father of Kaaps

By Peter Snyders 21.4.2022 

Even our own Coloured academics are not only ignorant of our language, who have been – and still are – in cahoots with the colonialists who to this day is still controlling the minds of the “people of colour.” Please be on your guard against any of their attempts to try and rescue Afrikaans by, once against – as forever, pulling Kaaps in front as a shield. We read until our weariness is exhausted of how Afrikaans is being mistreated but the complainants never mention that that very mistreatment has been done to Kaaps from inception up to this very day.

Kaaps is an indigenous language. We think we are proving this with every sentence. The older Afrikaans dictionaries up to the eighties as far as we know, have always emphasised the Afrikaner’s / Boer’s European heritage and did the same with their language. It was considered discrepant (at variance) by them to be associated with the ‘savage and barbarous Africa’. 

In the Boers Republics chapter, from 1854, in For Whom the Land of M.I. Jirsch, p. 50 we read of how the Boers of the Free State and Transvaal Republics instituted their eleventh master-servant commandment of “No equality in Church or State” as the first principle of their Grondwet (Constitution). The Bantu had to remain uneducated “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” Add to this that no Coloured persons or half castes were to be admitted to any civic privileges. The natives, which included Coloureds, had to keep their “place.”

We have thousands of words and expressions that are typically Kaaps. But the main aspect of a language is its unique spirit that goes together with the unique community and culture of the users of their language. So, it is completely absurd to continue to thrust and force Afrikaans, a white language, onto us, Coloureds, who were called hotnots and bastaards, but our forefathers slightly tuned the terms down to Basters, Griquas and Namakwalanders. 

Spiritual practitioners do not criticise, but they hunger and thirst after righteousness (Matthew 5:6) and to be silent about injustices means to consent to them. But worse, we become complicit when we become apathetic (indifferent) and thus have to share in the (collective) karma. The spirit of every language is bounded by the same precepts (‘commandments’ in Christianity) as its users. 

So, the spirit does not tolerate lies and deception. When the precepts are violated, the spirit retreats and if the transgressions persist, it may leave completely. After one has realized his/her ignorance, the only way to get the spirit, (not only of the language but of everything else), to return, is to admit the past error and have a genuine remorse. Some wise Afrikaner, responding to an article on Afrikaans, said that perhaps they should start over.

This is why we like writing informally, like in these posts, instead of in the cold and spiritless format of an academic paper or thesis. We can allow the spirit to wander off, digress or do whatever it wants because it lives in the moment and not in a corset. In this way we will always display its authority.

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The baby (pidgin) Kaaps was for a long, long time nameless. We are grateful to Adam Small for giving our language such an appropriate name. It is the same with the Coloured people to this day. We were always nothings even to this day. Our ethnic group names are written with a small letter to keep us on the level of dogs and other specific breeds. Everything about us has been twisted by lies and derisions and mocking. We accepted them all because we were powerless.

But we are not still powerless. Unfortunately, many of us – including and especially our own academics who think that we are speaking Afrikaans, that Afrikaans is our language; that any Coloured who does not speak Afrikaans fluently is of a lower class.

The truth is that our language has been captured. We will show that Kaaps never came from Afrikaans, but the reverse happened: Afrikaans is actually a dialect of Kaaps. We will provide proof of this but if anyone comes with his bickering, ask him to prove whatever he says.

Sure, he will go to his highly flawed system of quoting. Writing has always been the white man’s tool. He came here with his guns and cannons and soldiers and horses and violence in his heart. And after he had robbed the indigenous people of everything they had, he wrote the history. But anyone with insight can see right through all the lies.

We are not against anyone, and certainly not against any Coloured or academic who glorifies the Afrikaans that has been thrusted down onto us up to twenty years before the same was done to the black students in 1976. And when they resisted, they were shot down like vermin much in the same way the colonialist government did to the Bushmen who resisted them and their methods.

 Many of the words that Kaaps and Afrikaans share came from Kaaps, not from Afrikaans. We have already shown you how it is done according to the science of linguistics, but we will go into detail when the time comes.

It is not our style to tell you everything because that which you realise yourself brings with it its proof and authority and stays with you. The only difference is that more proof is attracted to your first proof. If we only listen but never DO or test or prove or examine what we have learnt, we will be building our house on shifting sand only to be swept away by the first flood waters. 

21.4.2022    17.9.2026