Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) a city-dweller, esp. when ignorant of country ways.

1970		informant in DSAE (1996).
1980		Rand Daily Mail 7 Oct. 5: ‘Why do you stadsjapies (city boys) come out here at this time of year?’ Tant Mart queried from under her Voortrekker sun-bonnet [DSAE].
1988		D. Hughes et al. Complete Bk of S. Afr. Wine 61: This is not a world which is often seen or penetrated by the stadsjapies, the city folk who flock to the winelands in the golden height of summer [DSAE].