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Heritage Day: poet celebrates Kaaps dictionary

The first-ever Kaaps Woriboek was released earlier this year

Gaireyah Fredericks spoke at the Iziko Bo-kaap museum on Thursday. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks
“One cannot complete one’s identity without language,” says award-winning author and poet Gaireyah Fredericks. She was speaking about the rich history of Kaaps at the Iziko Bo-Kaap museum’s Heritage Day event on Thursday.
Kaaps is a unique vernacular with roots that go as far back as the 1500s and developed over the years through contact between Khoi and San people, enslaved people and settlers. It is closely tied to Afrikaans but distinct.
Fredericks is a Kaaps advocate and translator, and contributed to the Kaaps Woriboek – the first-ever Kaaps dictionary released earlier this year.
It is trilingual: Kaaps, Afrikaans and English. The project was led by UWC…

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