Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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

1925		H.J. Mandelbrote trans. O.F. Mentzel’s Descr. of Cape of G.H II 97: The bystanders made fun of me, for I was the ‘schaap’, yet I explained that [...] I had not done so badly [DSAE].
1947		H.C. Bosman Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 383: Here was Hans Korf carrying on [...] like some unsophisticated yokel, like the kind of person she heard men [...] describe as a ‘skapie’.
1959		E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 40: I had stopped worrying about being called skapie – sheep – I was told that’s the label they stuck on anybody fresh from the country.
1970		M. Dikobe Marabi Dance (t/s) 108: Sepai is not a boy like the town ones. He is what we call ‘scapie’ — ‘sheep’. He won’t allow me to go to the Social Centre or Bioscope [DSAE].
1982		M.V. Mzamane Children of Soweto 36: He’s not doing too badly for a country skaapie.
2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 101: Somebody concluded that if I didn’t know what the boere were called then I had to be a full-on skaap.

2. a derog. name for an Afrikaner.

1981		Sun. Times (Jo’burg) 15 Mar. 21: Would you like to be an Afrikaner and plastered with ‘Hairy back’, ‘Rock spider’, ‘Skaaps’ [etc.] [DSAE].
1992		E.M. Macphail Mrs Chuds Place 15: Listen, Duif. I am called a skaap. Ja, and who called the French frogs, hey? Yes, and what about Yids and Huns? [DSAE].