Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a fictitious town, used to personify an insignificant, ‘one-horse’ town.

1948		Common Sense 326: It should have been simpler to name them van Blerk, Smit, van Niekerk, and place them in some mythical platteland Blikkiesdorp.
1962		J. Taylor ‘Hennie van Saracen’ 🎵 One day outside Blikkiesdorp I got out of control, And I ended up in Bree Street, with my tank stuck up a pole [DSAE].
1971		Fair Lady 6 Sept. 103: Are you bored stiff by that routine job somewhere in Blikkiesdorp? [DSAE].
1982		Sun. Times (Johannesburg) 18 Apr. n.p.: There are ways of having a holiday on the cheap [...] but only if Mum is agreeable to doing all the work [...] on a camping holiday at Blikkiesbaai [DSAE].
1982		Fair Lady 3 Nov. n.p.: ‘Interesting, unusual, strking’ [...] can tide you over anything from the top growths to a plonk-de-plonk from the Overblikkiesberg Cooperative [DSAE].
1984		in Grocott’s Mail (S.Afr.) 10 Apr. 17: I can see no merit at all in debating who said what about the Hon. Member of Blikkiesdorp’s buffalo-hunting trip when you are supposed to be debating the budget [DSAE].
1990		J.G. Davis Land God Made in Anger 304: The good old Afrikaner farmers and housewives of Blikkiesdorp — they’re just simple God-fearing folk [DSAE].

2. a slum, a shanty-town.

1959		J.M. Meiring Candle in the Wind 118: ‘Hullo, Blikkiesdorp,’ he called. [...] The street was very dirty, and the houses squalid.
2005		H. MacMillan African Trading Empire 171: The [...] ‘poor white’ sections of the population lived in Emmasdale which was also less politely known as ‘Blikkiesdorp’.