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1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's lekker, thick South African joke book, page 164:
The other men ask why he's crying, when he's got such a lekker car. The guy shakes his head and says, "I just saw my wife, and she was driving a skateboard."
The noun is a backformation from Dutch lekkers, which is a mass noun derived from the partitive form (as in iets lekkers). In Afrikaans it was reinterpreted as a plural.
De nieuwe onderzoeksassistente is een genie, maar volgens mij is ze niet zo lekker in haar bovenkamer.
The new research assistant is a genius, but I think she's not mentally well up there.
Usage notes
This adjective, especially its adverbial use, often has an ironic meaning (particularly the sense nice, pleasant), e.g. lekker belangrijk or lekker boeiend for "not very important/interesting", or lekker type for "not a very pleasant person".