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Koos Kombuis (born
André le Roux du Toit, November 5, 1954) is a
South African musician,
singer,
songwriter and
writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick
Afrikaans musicians, who, under the collective name of
Voëlvry (directly translated meaning "Free as a bird"; in
Afrikaans "voëlvry" is synonymous to the word "fugitive"), toured campuses across
South Africa in the 1980s, to "
liberate Afrikaans from the shackles of its past". Fellow musicians of this movement were
Johannes Kerkorrel and
Bernoldus Niemand (James Phillips).
They were a younger generation
Afrikaner who didn't believe in
apartheid and didn't toe the ruling
National Party line. This movement coined the term
Alternative Afrikaner for themselves. Kombuis is somewhat of an icon among certain
South Africans who consider him the guru of
Afrikaans rock music and father of non-conformist
Afrikaans culture.
Humorous stage name
Koos Kombuis is a humorous
stage name as well as his
pen name.
Koos (sounding like "
koo-iss") is a shortened version for the common name "
Jacobus" / "
Jakobus", but is also
Afrikaans slang for a
chamber pot.
Kombuis means "
Kitchen" in
Afrikaans. His childhood nickname was "Koos", and he got his last name from a time when he squatted in the kitchen of former drug-dealer and author
Al Lovejoy . The name also alludes to the......
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