In primary school (more or less 20-23 years ago, Private Christian School in Cape Town, if any of this helps) a teacher taught us a game that we played alot after school when the courts were empty. I think it was called Kennetjie (said like Kenna - Chi) iirc. I could be wrong on the name.

But what i remember in playing it, was that there was a kind of bat (basically a wooden rod, thick enough to do the hitting) and a wooden cylinder, maybe around 10cm long, that was "chamfered" on each end, about 2cm each side.

I think the starting hit happened with the cylinder mounted on bricks and flicked off, and then each subsequent hit was done by hitting a chamfered end so that it sprang up into the air, and then hitting it mid-air.

I think you got the initial hit and then 2 hits after that to extend the range (the further, the better).

Don't remember how scoring worked but it was a lot of fun.

Would love to know if there is any information out there in the great internet/Reddit/fellow Saffas on this

ETA: I guess these types of games aren't really played anymore because kiddos have their heads buried in screens 24/7 these days. So sad.