Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) a light truck, a pick-up, a 4×4 vehicle.

1958		A. Jackson Trader on Veld 42: Donkeys for transport [...] or to operate the ‘Bakkies pump’ [i.e. a windmill].
1968		Farmers Weekly (S.Afr.) 3 Jan. 98: [advert] Bakkies! Bakkies! Bakkies! All makes and sizes [DSAE].
1978		N.Y. Times 8 Jan. 19: Another nasty moment came between Jamestown and Sterkspruit when the ‘bakkie’ had a puncture.
1982		P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 12: Ask Dougie to bring the bakkie come pick us up.
1986		P. Slabolepszy ‘Boo to the Moon’ in Mooi Street (1994) 120: They see some blacks go by in a bakkie.
1989		B. Simon ‘Score Me the Ages’ Born in the RSA (1997) 157: And the next thing we riding Rudy’ baakie hey.
1990		R. Malan My Traitor’s Heart (1991) 128: He sometimes roamed the countryside in his bakkie, his pickup.
1999		Indep. Rev. 1 June 1: They stole two of his bakkies (pick-ups).
2006		L. Radebe My Dad 106: On weekends, Michael will often return to his house in Hammans-kraal, a dry, flat scrubland north of Pretoria, in a company bakkie.
2010		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 13 Jan. 🌐 There is one word for which this country [i.e. the UK] has no equivalent — ‘bakkie’.
2013		IOL News Capetown 18 Mar. 🌐 Policemen allegedly handcuffed taxi driver Mido Macia to a police bakkie and [...] dragged him down the street.
2017		Mail & Guardian Online 20 July 🌐 The powerfully built shebeen owner [...] leans against his double-cab bakkie .