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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [Re: [Cape town notables - 1832]
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:35:12 +0200
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On 25 Jan 2002 at 11:16, Andrew Rodger wrote:

> Duits does mean German (and of course in Pennsylvania, Dutch means German),
> but I believe Nederduits in Dutch and Afrikaans means Dutch. At least one of
> the branches of the Calvinist Church (NOT the Lutherans) in SA is called
> "Nederduitse" rather than "Nederlandse". I can never remember which of these
> branches is the more "verkrampt", which is commonly called "Doppers", etc. I
> attended one minor offshoot the DRC during a visit to the Netherlands, and it
> was a very strange experience. They sang no hymns, only psalms, in a number

That would be the Doppers, known here as the Gereformeerde Kerk (GK), with
headquarters at Potchefstroom.

The Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk is the biggest, and the Nederduitsch
Hervormde Kerk is the verkramp one (politically, that is -- they are
theologically more liberal than the NGK or GK).

The ones in the Netherlands also used to be known as Nederduits or
Nederduitsch, but chaned to Nederlandse quite recently, possibly because of
anti-German feeling after WW II.


Steve Hayes
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