Kappie Kommando, noun phrase

/ˈkapi kəˌmɑːndəʊ/‖/ˈkapi kɔˈmanduə/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, kappie see kappie + kommando see commando.
1. In historical contexts. see quotation.
1939 Star 1 Oct. 6Voortrekker costumes are to be worn by members of the ‘Kappie Kommando,’ which has been formed at Brakpan by a number of Afrikaner women with the object of honouring the Voortrekkers.
2. An ultra-conservative Afrikaner women’s political organization: a member of this organization; KK. Also attributive. See also kappie sense 4.
1981 Cape Times 18 Jan. 1Kappiekommandos had received the ‘call of God to save South Africa against a government that was ready to give in to the blacks’.
1981 M. Van Biljon in Sunday Times 19 Apr. (Mag. Sect.) 5 (caption)The Kappie Kommando..declared ‘war’ on the Prime Minister (and others) at the opening of Parliament.
1981 Het Suid-Western 23 Mar.A few fortunate souls were..treated to a rare glimpse of a kappiekommando outside the Magistrate’s Court in George on Friday.
1982 Sunday Times 28 Feb. 1Members of the Transvaal Head Committee..were greeted by a demonstration of ‘Kappie Kommando’ women in traditional Voortrekker dress and children waving the Vierkleur flag of the Transvaal republic.
1983 Evening Post 2 May 3The Prime Minister..has sharply criticised the leader of the ‘Kappie Kommando’..for reportedly saying that blacks and whites had separate gods and would go to separate heavens.
1990 Sunday Times 11 Feb. 3South African heroine Emily Hobhouse’s Bloemfontein grave became the stage for a right-wing protest against reform this week. An angry group of Kappie Kommmando members tried to disrupt a memorial service for the South African War heroine as a British actress prepared to lay a wreath.
1990 D. Van Heerden in Sunday Times 10 June 8Marie van Z— and her Kappie-kommando..used to grace right-wing rallies with their appearances in full Voortrekker regalia.
1990 P. Cull in E. Prov. Herald 14 Sept. 6One ally of the AWB is the Kappie Commando, led by Mrs Marie van Z—. It surfaced about 10 years ago as an all-women commando, making a dramatic entry on the the ‘political stage’ when five women in black Voortrekker dresses attempted to hand white carnations to then Prime Minister P W Botha at the opening of Parliament.
1990 R. Daniel in Weekly Mail 2 Nov. 25And then there are irresistible instances of whimsy, such as the unlikely cameo by Vanessa Cooke as Kappiekommando mili-tante Wanda Stander.
1992 R.H. Du Pre Making of Racial Conflict 166Kappiekommando Formed out of the AWB for the ‘boervrou’ to take up the fight beside her husband like the Voortrekker women of old.
see quotation.
An ultra-conservative Afrikaner women’s political organization: a member of this organization; KK. Also attributive.
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