Back in 1981 I spent 2 years in Bloemfontein and various parts in the far north of the country. (SADF)
Turns out a lot of my Afrikaans brothers went around barefoot. So some soutie came up with the joke that everyone north of the Du Toits Kloof mountains lived barefoot.
Guess it was a subtle dig at the less sophisticated, most of the English dudes came from Cape Town and it was a bit of a culture shock seeing how the north lived.
This.
Our old joke at school went:
'Why do some people want to become spietkops?'
'So they can have shoes, a motorbike and a gun.'
The military was (and still is!) a different kind of education...