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Affrikaans is a Dutch-based language, which is very similar to German. And I know in German, they tend not to enunciate the R at the end of a word. Similar to how a posh British person or a Bostonian would pronounce the end of Mother (like MUTH-a). So the chances are, in her Afrikaans accent, and I can imagine it being said this way now actually, that the r is being pronounced, but it's very light and the A is drawn out. That took me a second to figure out, but it makes the perfect sense...I'm kind of a language dork as well as a namenerd lol.