Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (S.Afr.) a country bumpkin.

1959		J.M. Meiring Candle in the Wind 113: I must take my doek off when I get to Freek. It makes me look like a plaasjapie.
1960		African Communist 88: Today, many people outside South Africa, still see the Afrikaner as a ‘plaasjapie’, backward, crude peasant who, because of his backwardness, has strange ideas about race.
1978		Darling 13 Sept. 29: Why do all you people think we’re backward [...] I mean, to you city people, we’re just a lot of plaasjaaps. Farming is hard, man, that’s what you don’t understand [DSAE].
1987		Z. Wicomb You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town 146: My God Frieda Shenton, you plaasjapie, is it really you?
1993		M.N. Williams Kwa-Landlady in Perkins (1998) 162: Sy’s net a plaasjapie.
2005		J.G. Mumford Drums of Rebellion 194: You’re just a bloody plaasjapie (country yokel) from the boondocks .
2007		IOL News (Western Cape) 14 Dec. 🌐 There has been an attempt to portray Zuma as a moegoe, a plaasjaapie, a rural person.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1990

P.-D. Uys Part Hate Part Love (1994) 51: She had done virtually everything in her power to become a city girl, to drop the plaasjapie aspect of her upbringing.