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‖ Vaalpens S. Afr.|ˈfɑːlpɛns|
Pl. -pens, pense(n). Also with lower-case initial in attrib. use.
[Afrikaans, f. as prec. + pens paunch, belly.]
a. A name for a member of the Ba-Kalahari tribe.
b. colloq. A nickname for a Transvaaler.
1871J. Mackenzie Ten Years North of Orange River iii. 53 Their fellow-countrymen to the south..sometimes call them ‘Vaalpensen’, which is the Dutch for Bakalahari, the ill-favoured and lean vassals of the Bechuanas. 1899Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 6 Dec. 3/4 A South African Dutchman writes us a somewhat bitter letter... He writes as a Dutch Afrikander, a Vaalpens in fact. 1900A. H. Keane Boer States iii. 32 Here [in the Bosch Veld] is also the true home of the Vaalpens, most degraded of all the South African aborigines. 1916Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 28 Sept. 3 The Vaalpens reported that one of our oxen had been mauled... We saddled up and with three Vaalpens soon found where the lion had caught the ox. 1934Star (Johannesburg) 1 May 13/1 For the past 50 years and more Free Staters have been known among Dutch-speaking South Africans as Blikore (tin ears) and Transvaalers as Vaalpense, the latter so called after a certain native tribe of that name who lived in the Transvaal. a1936E. N. Marais Soul of Ape (1969) iii. 92 Here in Waterberg..a case of ‘homing’ in a descendant of the so-called ‘vaalpens pygmies’ that at one time inhabited the Bushveld of the northern Transvaal. 1970Personality Competition, The ‘Vaalpens’ are very scarce in South Africa nowadays. |