... vocabulary is 90-95% Dutch. I think in this context it's a Dutch word. Stoop in Afrikaans apparently means something slightly different.
In the mid '60s I took a train from Trondheim in Norway up North to work at a mine near a small town called Malm. About a fifth of the way there, the train stopped at a small town called Hell ! On one of the platforms was a building with a sign on it that sail "HELL - GODS EXPEDITION". I wondered if Malm was gonna be like Heaven.