Die Antwoord and South African Carnivals

One of the problems I've been having with Die Antwoord being a group that uses the Wildman mythos is that, how would a bunch of Boers know any of the myth? I mean, yes, in Europe there are carnivals, and yes in the US, there were a lot of Dutch settlers and the 'story' is that we got Santa Claus and the like through them, but had the dutch-derived Boers done the same?

Well, turns out that there are Carnivals in the old style in South Africa. Here's the "Kaapse klopse":

http://www.sa-venues.com/events/western-cape-event-description.php?id=414

Which sounds a little to me like "Cape Claus", but I'm probably completely off-base there and the Clas/Claus/Klaus words may have nothing to do with a 'klopse'.

One interesting thing about the Kaapse klopse is that its described, at least on that page, as having to do with south african slavery, that January 1st is when the slave drivers gave the slaves off for a day. Which is how Carnival is apparently often explained. I asked someone from trinidad about their carnival, and they described it the same way, 'its when the slaves were allowed to have a holliday, and since they were so oppressed throughout the year, the carnival gets pretty wild.'.

But of course that's not the origins of the carnival, the carnival is pre-slavery. Its also interesting that the Kaapse klopse is called a Minstrel carnival, probably because, and I am guessing here, the south african whites smeared their faces black for carnival. This, in other carnival/wildman situations, is usually taken as 'oh its a black face, it must be meant to be a black person', but, just like the 'slave holliday' story, that's probably not the case either. So it looks like South Africa, and in particular the Cape, where Die Antwoord (and also Jack Parow) supposedly come from, has a regular old Carnival that goes on there.